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New Delhi (Sputnik) — barely three days before the opening of the India defence Expo 2018 in the southern state of Chennai, the website of the Ministry of defence was hacked. In 2016, in India it was revealed hackers called ‘Chinese military headquarters of the Western ” and “Suckfly’, on the basis of China Chengdu, as a powerful cyber threats for government agencies. However, it is the first cyber attack on the Indian defense Ministry in the past three years.
“The action was initiated after the hacking of the website of mod (https://mod.nic.in). The website will soon be restored. Needless to say, all possible measures necessary to prevent any such incidents in the future will be taken,” Nirmala Seetharaman said on Twitter shortly after the site was hacked.
The issue of cyber attacks on defence establishments has been raised in Parliament earlier this month in which the Ministry of defence Nirmala Seetharaman said, “secret information from three well guarded. To minimize cyber threats, all three services have established their groups respond to cyber incidents (cert). Further, adequate safeguards were instituted in the form of cyber checks, the actual checks and guidelines to ensure a secure cyber posture of the armed forces”.
Seetharaman also reported that the overall threat to cyberspace has increased, although no cyber attacks on defence establishments were registered in the last three years.
The Ministry of defence of India and other government web sites were the face of the constant threat from hackers over the past two years. In 2016, India has issued a red alert against cyber attacks on government and commercial organizations ‘headquarters of the Chinese military Western’. A warning was also issued to Indian army, Navy and air force that the Chinese advanced persistent threat group called Suckfly based in the region of Chengdu was against Indian organizations and Indian defense Ministry was targeted.
Sourse: sputniknews.com
