The Maharashtra government said that a preliminary report of the cyber cell of the Maharashtra police also suspected cyber-attack as a reason behind power outage in Mumbai in October last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The announcement came in the wake of a report from Recorded Future, a U.S.-based cybersecurity firm, stating that a group linked to the Chinese government, which it called \u2018Red Echo\u2019, had targeted 10 vital nodes in India\u2019s power distribution system and two seaports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recorded Future found a large number of IP addresses linked to critical Indian systems communicating for months with AXIOMATICASYMPTOTE servers connected to Red Echo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
AXIOMATICASYMPTOTE servers act as command-and-control centres for a malware known as ShadowPad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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