Maha govt to table report on power outage tomorrow

March 02, 2021 16:53

Maharashtra Power Minister Nitin Raut

Maharashtra Power Minister Nitin Raut said he will table all the reports on the October 12 Mumbai power outage in the Assembly tomorrow.

This comes after the Maharashtra state government took cognisance of a media report, claiming the Mumbai power outage was a likely Chinese cyber attack. Home minister Anil Deshmukh sought a report from the cyber department over it.

Maharashtra Cyber Cell has submitted a preliminary report on this. The report findings state there is evidence that suggests there might have been a cyber-sabotage attempt. The report was handed over to minister Nitin Raut, Deshmuk says.

The Chinese foreign ministry spox in India said China firmly opposed and cracks down on all forms of cyber attacks. "Speculation & fabrication have no role to play on the issue of cyber-attacks. Highly irresponsible to accuse a particular party with no sufficient evidence around."

Recorded Future, a Massachusetts-based company which studies the use of the internet by state actors, in its recent report details the campaign conducted by a China-linked threat activity group RedEcho targeting the Indian power sector.

The activity was identified through a combination of large-scale automated network traffic analytics and expert analysis.

Data sources include the Recorded Future Platform, SecurityTrails, Spur, Farsight and common open-source tools and techniques, the report said.

On October 12, a grid failure in Mumbai resulted in massive power outages, stopping trains on tracks, hampering those working from home amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and hitting the stuttering economic activity hard.

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