{"id":484925,"date":"2022-04-18T10:46:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T05:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=484925"},"modified":"2022-04-18T10:46:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T05:16:07","slug":"ib-central-cyber-security-agencies-to-probe-ransomware-attack-on-oil-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ib-central-cyber-security-agencies-to-probe-ransomware-attack-on-oil-india\/","title":{"rendered":"IB, Central cyber security agencies to probe ransomware attack on Oil India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Intelligence Bureau and two national cyber security agencies \u2013 CERT-In and NCIIPC \u2013 have joined the probe into the ransomware attack on state-run explorer Oil India Ltd\u2019s (OIL) headquarters at Duliajan in Assam on April 10 asking for a ransom of $75,00,000 (Rs 57 crore), sources said.<br \/>\nThe level of the Centre\u2019s response to the first publicly known cyberattack on an Indian oil company is significant as it comes within less than two months of alleged China-backed hackers targeting \u2013 without success \u2013 seven power grid controllers in the northern region.<br \/>\nThe deployment of IB and the Central cyber security agencies indicates the government is not treating the attack on OIL as a wanton cyber extortion activity and wants to find out the possible role of cyber criminal syndicates or foreign-backed players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Intelligence Bureau and two national cyber security agencies \u2013 CERT-In and NCIIPC \u2013 have joined the probe into the ransomware attack on state-run explorer Oil India Ltd\u2019s (OIL) headquarters at Duliajan in Assam on April 10 asking for a ransom of $75,00,000 (Rs 57 crore), sources said. The level of the Centre\u2019s response to the first publicly known cyberattack on an Indian oil company is significant as it comes within less than two months of alleged China-backed hackers targeting \u2013 without success \u2013 seven power grid controllers in the northern region. The deployment of IB and the [&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":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484925","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=484925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}