Mumbai Outage Example Of China Targeting India Power Facilities
China may have targeted power facilities across India last year in the middle of hostilities at the border, a new study says. A massive power outage in Mumbai in October, which stopped trains and shut down hospitals and the stock exchange for hours, may have been linked to these activities by a group of Chinese hackers, says the report that has been shared with the government.
The study shows that alongside the Ladakh tensions, which escalated in June with the clash at Galwan Valley in which 20 Indian soldiers died for the country, Chinese malware was flowing into systems that manage power supply across India.
China-linked threat activity group RedEcho may have planted malware in key power plants in India, said the study first reported by New York Times. The links to the Mumbai power...
