Report: Suspected Chinese hack targets Indian media, government


Source: indiatimes.com indiatimes.com

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Agencies Chinese authorities have consistently denied any form of state-sponsored hacking and said China itself is a major target of cyberattacks. A US-based private cybersecurity company said on Wednesday it has uncovered evidence that an Indian media conglomerate, as well as a police department and the agency responsible for the country’s national identification database have been hacked, likely by a state-sponsored Chinese group. The Insikt Group, the threat research division of Massachusetts-based Recorded Future, said the hacking group, given the temporary name TAG-28, made use of Winnti malware, which it said is exclusively shared among several Chinese state-sponsored activity groups....