China’s cyber attack: conspiracy was to create electricity across Mumbai as well as the whole country

Amidst ongoing tension along the border in eastern Ladakh, China had conspired to disrupt the nationwide power supply by cyber attack. He wanted India to get scared and not adopt a more aggressive attitude on the border. China carried out this attack through Malware Shadow Pads on India’s power system through the Red Echo. Historically there was a power failure in Mumbai last year, which is believed to be the reason. The Ministry of Power admitted on Monday that CERT had warned the power company by sending a mail about this cyber attack on 19 November 2020.

The ministry said that on November 19, the mail received from the Computer Emergency Response Team, or CERT, was sent to the power supply centers across the country. According to him, all the centers had taken measures to deal with this danger. The Ministry of Power said the NCIIPC had then informed via mail on February 12 that China’s government-backed hackers group Red Echo Group conspired to stall it by sending malware viruses into the systems of India’s regional power distribution centers and state distribution centers. Has been created. The NCIIP was constituted on 16 January 2014 under the IT Act 2000. Its job is to protect the important information infrastructure of the country.
The Ministry of Power said that precautionary measures were taken as soon as CERT reported Chinese cyber attack in November 2020.
Meanwhile, a report published in the New York Times said that China was behind the historic power failure in Mumbai last year. China wanted that India could not adopt a more stringent approach to the ongoing tension on the border, hence cyber attack on it. China was behind the mega power cut of Mumbai. There was a power failure in Mumbai due to his cyber attack.