India downplays Chinese hacking report targeting its media, national identification database


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(TibetanReview.net, Sep23’21) – While India has downplayed it, a US-based private cybersecurity company has said Sep 22 that it had uncovered evidence that an Indian media conglomerate, a police department, and the agency responsible for the country’s national identification database had 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, had made use of Winnti malware, which it said is exclusively shared among several Chinese state-sponsored activity groups, reported Reuters Sep 23. Nothing that relations between China and India already remain...