{"id":402922,"date":"2021-03-03T12:17:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T06:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=402922"},"modified":"2021-03-03T12:55:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T07:25:41","slug":"chinese-ops-target-indias-energy-infra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chinese-ops-target-indias-energy-infra\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese ops target India\u2019s energy infra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese-government linked attackers possibly gained access to computer networks part of India\u2019s power infrastructure, a US-based cybersecurity firm has said, citing technical clues that federal power ministry officials separately said had been on their radar, fuelling speculation that a blackout in Mumbai last year may have been the result of sabotage.<\/p>\n<p>First reported by the New York Times on Monday, security consultancy Recorded Future said the attackers (which it calls RedEcho) targeted at least \u201c10 distinct power sector organisations\u201d with a malware known as ShadowPad.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after the disclosure, the Union power ministry said it had received inputs from Indian agencies \u2014 first in November and then again in February this year \u2014 about the threat of infection from ShadowPad, prompting remedial measures to be taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese-government linked attackers possibly gained access to computer networks part of India\u2019s power infrastructure, a US-based cybersecurity firm has said, citing technical clues that federal power ministry officials separately said had been on their radar, fuelling speculation that a blackout in Mumbai last year may have been the result of sabotage. First reported by the New York Times on Monday, security consultancy Recorded Future said the attackers (which it calls RedEcho) targeted at least \u201c10 distinct power sector organisations\u201d with a malware known as ShadowPad. Hours after the disclosure, the Union power ministry said it had received inputs from Indian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}