Indian media conglomerate, a police department and agency responsible for India's national identification database hacked, likely by state-sponsored Chinese group, says US-based cybersecurity firm
An Indian media conglomerate, a police department and the agency responsible for the country's national identification database have been hacked, likely by a state-sponsored Chinese group, a cyber security firm said.
The hacking group, given the temporary name TAG-28, made use of Winnti malware, which is exclusively shared among several Chinese state-sponsored activity groups, said Insikt Group on Wednesday.China govt contracts criminal hackers, says USChinese authorities have consistently denied any form of state-sponsored hacking and said China itself is a major target of cyberattacks.
The allegation has the possibility of increasing friction between the two regional giants, whose relations have already been seriously strained by a border dispute that has led to clashes this year and last year. "As of early August 2021, Recorded Future data shows a 261percent increase in the number of suspected state-sponsored Chinese cyber operations targeting Indian organisations and companies already in 2021 compared to 2020," the organisation said in a report.
It said is observed approximately 500 megabytes of data being extracted from the network of the privately-owned Mumbai company, whose publications includeInsikt said it could not identify the content of that data, but noted that the company frequently publishes reports on China-India tensions, and that the hack was likely motivated by “wanting access to journalists and their sources as well as pre-publication content of potentially damaging articles.
As the group was investigating the Bennett Coleman hack, it said it also identified a compromise in June and July of the Unique Identification Authority of India, or UIDAI, the government agency that oversees the national identification database.
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