Chinese hackers have always strike at Indian cyber boundaries, be it PMO attack or other sensitive government authority. At this time they have managed to broke into the computers of Indian Navy. They were successful in penetrating computers at Eastern Naval Command Headquarters located at the city of Vizag. It is supposed that they had planted a bug which sent sensitive data to IP addresses in China. As read by The Indian Express newspaper, the naval computers were found to be infected with the virus and noted that India’s first nuclear missile submarine, INS Arihant, was currently undergoing trials at the facility.The virus had reportedly created a hidden folder, collected specific files and documents based on certain key words it had been programmed to identify, and remained hidden on the pen drives until they were put in computers connected to the Internet, after which the bug quietly sent files to the specific IP addresses, sources explained to the news site.The extent of loss however, is still undergoing investigations, and it was premature at this stage to comment on the sensitivity of the compromised data, officials noted.
These kind of incidence gives a clear shot of self hyped cyber security strategies implemented by government. Such confidential headquarters have physical security layers as well, like no or disabled USB ports. It seems proper measures were not taken here by the authorities. An inquiry is being run on this issue. Stay tuned to get more updates!
