Recently, the New York Times has claimed that China had done a huge cyber attack in India's financial capital Mumbai.

And because of this, there was a huge power outage in Mumbai, in October 2020, a huge power outage done in Mumbai.

There was no electricity in the entire financial capital Mumbai, people were afraid. Suddenly, the hospital, railway station everywhere electricity had gone away. And it is very embarrassing that such a huge cyber attack has done in India and we are not doing anything about it.

And this was done at the time when Ladakh faceoff were at a peak. But now you must be thinking that we have got a cyber attack and we know this through the news of US news agency, So it is not at all like when this cyber attack took place, at that time cyber cell of Mumbai claimed that this power outage would likely a sabotage.

whatnot | cyber attack

Which group in China did this cyber attack?

According to the Recorded Future report china-linked Group RedEcho did this attack with full of planning. RedEcho targeted Indian power sector for cyber attack. 

Wait now the question will be in the mind that is power line connected to the computer? 

  • yes, power line is connected with computer at so many places. It is not that the entire country's power is connected to the computer but at some places it is connected with computer.
  • Transmission line, power plant and a grid in among them several time computer had been used for connectivity.
  • So this is the possibility that this group have done cyber attack. They might have injected malware into these computers and than they carry out their cyber attack.
  • They primarily used plugX malware. this normally used for taking control of other system this was very old malware but china primarily used this malware.
We all know that China had suffered a huge lose in the Galvan valley (About 45 Chinese soldiers were killed). And even today, China is not able to accept this.

China knows that it is difficult to defeat or push back India in border by army or military power so that they use a unethical way like building infrastructure at border area, cyber attack, building a lots of dam on river, making bio weapon like recent china origin virus and lots more.

In the past news report, around 40,000 Cyber Attacks attempted on Indian web, banking sector by Chinese hackers.

 In recent times in India, China made hardware is used in the railway sector and even in the power sector and at other places too.

So Indian government need to replace it with other country's hardware or making own hardware for replacement of Chinese hardware otherwise India always hold on backfoot in front of china, because it will be dependent on china.

- whatnot

You may like this article, click below link: