G20 Meet Faces China-Pak Cyber Threat, Indonesian ‘OpIndia’ Blitz; Authorities Adopt ‘Zero Trust’ Approach

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The ministry of home affairs (MHA) has issued an advisory to all banks regarding hacker groups targeting the banking and finance sector in light of the G20 summit in New Delhi on September 9 and 10. The ministry has said that as the event approaches, malicious threat actors are likely to target the banking sector. Authorities have observed that various cyber threat actor groups have been claiming credit for Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks on the banking sector. On Thursday, a DDOS strike was attempted on a major Indian bank by a foreign group. “In view of the above, Banks are...