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This story is from March 5, 2021


10 POWER ASSETS, MUMBAI, TAMIL NADU PORTS CAME UNDER REDECHO CYBERATTACK

Sanjay Dutta / TNN / Updated: Mar 5, 2021, 08:59 IST
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Power ministry said that no installation was affected as safeguards were already
in place.(Representative image)

NEW DELHI: Cyber attacks by RedEcho, the actor group with China links, on
India’s power infrastructure have been more widespread than previously known and
the intrusive infrastructure remains active even after military de-escalation in
Ladakh’s Pangong area.
According to Christopher Ahlberg, CEO of Recorded Future, the
Massachusetts-based enterprise security outfit that detected the intrusions, 10
Indian power sector assets and the Mumbai and Tamil Nadu’s VO Chidmabaranar
ports came under attack.
The power assets that came under attack were Delhi state load despatch centre,
DTL Tikri Kalan substation in Delhi; Mumbai Port Trust, western regional load
despatch centre In Maharashtra, NTPC's Kudgi power plant and southern regional
load despatch centre in Karnataka, VO Chidambarnar port in Tamil Nadu, Telengana
load despatch centre, eastern regional load despatch centre in West Bengal load
despatch centre and northeastern regional load despatch centre in Assam.




"Recorded Future observed through its network intelligence significant,
high-volume, network traffic from Indian power sector assets to servers used by
China-linked group RedEcho… The adversary infrastructure is still active and
activity continues (even after Pangong pull-back announcement)," Ahlberg said in
a presentation on the group’s findings on Thursday.
Charity Wright of Insikt, Recorded Future’s threat research group, said the
location of targeted infrastructure covered the length and breadth of India’s
geography as well as the demography.
A New York Times report had last Sunday blown the lid off on these intrusions,
citing findings by Recorded Future. It raised doubt Chinese hackers may have
caused the October 12 power outage in Mumbai as a warning against strong Indian
pushback to PLA’s border transgressions in Ladakh.
On the power ministry’s statement that no installation was affected as
safeguards were already in place, Wright said it showed the government responded
to alerts. On power minister RK Singh blaming the Mumbai blackout on human
error, Ahlberg said there was insufficient data to prove cyberattack caused the
Mumbai blackout.
Targeting the Indian energy sector offers limited economic espionage
opportunities. But the group believed “gathering future operational activity,
pre-positioning destructive malware, as a warning/show of force during
heightened bilateral tensions; and potential information operation to disturb
Indian population” could be the possible objectives.
Ahlberg said RedEcho “has overlapping modus-operandi with several Chinese
groups, including APT41 and Tonto Team,” the known cyber threat groups that take
directions from established nation-states to carry out cyberattacks.
Wright said her group detected the intrusions using large-scale automated
analytics and analysis. These included a combination of proactively identifying
adversary infrastructure through server fingerprinting; identifying established
sessions between the victim and adversary infrastructure through network traffic
analysis; and enriching traffic analysis with proprietary data sources for
victim identification.
This was the same methodology used to detect power sector intrusions in the
European transmission control system, ENTSO-E.


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