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Chinese cybercampaign against India’s power grid Discovery raises question about whether an outage that struck on October 13 in Mumbai was meant as a message from Beijing about border claims being pushed vigorously Early last summer, Chinese and Indian troops clashed in a border battle in the remote Galwan Valley, bashing each other to death with rocks and clubs. Four months later in Mumbai, trains shut down and the stock market closed as the power went out in a city of 20 million people. Hospita...

How a warning about ShadowPad, Red Echo saved the national power grid from being hacked India Published: Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 13:01 [IST] New Delhi, Mar 02: CERT-In, India's cyber security agency had in November detected ShadowPad malware, one of the largest supply chain attacks. The agency had alerted the national power grid operator and its regional units on November 19 about the malware and attempts being made to hack. The National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre had on February 12 warned about Red Echo, which is a Chinese state sponsored actor group. The warning s...

Updated Mar 01, 2021 | 17:01 IST On October 12, Mumbai witnessed massive power outages due to grid failure, hampering train services and hitting the stuttering economic activity hard. Representational Image  |  Photo Credit: PTI New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Power on Monday brushed off a report linking the Mumbai power outage in October last year to a Chinese cyber attack. A US company has hinted in its latest study that a Chinese government-linked group of hackers may have targeted India's critical power grid system through malware. In a statement,...

NEW DELHI – China carried out cyberattacks on Indian power and ports sectors when troops were engaged at the borders along the Line of Actual Control but there was "no impact" on critical infrastructure, sources in the power ministry said March 1. A study, China-Linked group Red Echo targets the Indian power sector amid heightened border tensions, carried out by Recorded Future's Insikt Group and released March 1 came to the conclusion that there were cyberattacks, but nothing happened to critical infrastructure. The report stated that in total, 21 IP addresses resolving to 10 distinct I...

Accusations of sabotage by Chinese malware agencies on India’s power grid started flying again with a report by Somerville-based Recorded Future citing the same and Maharashtra government ordering an investigation into whether or not the Mumbai outage in October 2020 was due to any Chinese sabotage. Cyber intelligence firm, Recorded Future in latest report said, China-linked Group RedEcho targeted the Indian power sector amid heightened border tensions. “Since early 2020, Recorded Future’s Insikt Group observed a large increase in suspected targeted intrusion activity against Indian ...