Chinese Cyber Hackers Made Over 40,000 Attacks On India Says Maharashtra Cyber Dept, Issues Advisory

Chinese threat actors are increasingly targeting various sectors in India, with over 40,300 cyber attack attempts made in just the past five days. The information has been shared by Maharashtra’s cyber security cell, which has noted the increasing activity of Chinese state-backed hackers. While Chinese threat actors are known cyber crime actors across the world, the recent surge in hacker activity comes in light of heightened geopolitical tensions in Galwan Valley at the Indo-China border. Yashasvi Yadav, Special IG, Maharashtra Cyber Intelligence Cell said, “In the past 4-5 days, there is a sudden surge of cyber criminal activity in the Indian cyber space. Resources and sectors such as infrastructure, information and banking have been heavily targeted in this period by Chinese attackers.” The Maharashtra government on June 23 issued an advisory warning people to not fall prey to the fake message. People have complained of receiving a message in the form of SMS and email offering free COVID-19 testing. In its advisory, the Maharashtra Cyber Department said Chinese cyber attackers planning a large scale phishing. Yadav made an appeal to common users to take cyber security even more seriously in such tense socio-political times

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