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India News: India is mulling a new national strategy to strengthen the country’s cybersecurity amid allegations that Chinese intrusions may have affected operatio.
India is mulling a new national strategy to strengthen the country’s cybersecurity amid allegations that Chinese intrusions may have affected operations at a key stock exchange and supply of electricity in the country’s commercial capital.
(This story originally appeared in on Mar 05, 2021)Cyber attacks by RedEcho, the actor group with China links, on India’s power infrastructure have been more widespread than previously known and the intrusive infrastructure remains active even after military de-escalation in Ladakh’s Pangong area. According to Christopher Ahlberg, CEO of Recorded Future, the Massachusetts-based enterprise security outfit that detected the intrusions, 10 Indian power sector assets and the Mumbai and Tamil Nadu’s VO Chidmabaranar ports came under attack. The power assets that came under attack were Delh...
A Chinese state-sponsored group Red Echo has been held responsible for the Mumbai power outage Maharashtra state's Interior Minister Anil Deshmukh has said that China might have allegedly introduced malware into the electrical infrastructure that resulted in a massive power outage in its capital Mumbai last year, as per the reports submitted by the US-based Recorded Future cybersecurity firm. A grid failure caused a widespread power outage in the financial and surrounding areas on October 12, 2020, a rare occurrence that disrupted train services in the city of 20 million. Following the grid...
Some of the tech built to quickly restore power after a cyberattack is now operational on parts of the U.S. grid, with more deployments to follow. This week's news of RedEcho shows, yet again, it can't happen soon enough. By Brad D. Williams on March 04, 2021 at 4:00 AM