China carried out a blackout in Mumbai, attempted a cyber attack in India

New delhi date. 01 March 2021, Monday

China attempted a cyber attack in India last year after clashes with Indian troops in the Galvan Valley. Not only that, due to his cyber attack, the country's financial capital Mumbai was blacked out for a day. In the country's economic capital, the lights went out and hospitals had to run on generators during the Corona period. This claim has been made in the report of the American newspaper New York Times.

Four months after the Galvan violence, trains were shut down due to a sudden power outage and the stock market was paralyzed. 20 million people in the city were plunged into darkness. Emergency generators had to be turned on in hospitals to keep the ventilator running and this was the period when Corona was at peak level in India. The blackout took place in Mumbai on October 12 last year. Now a new study has found that all of these events were interconnected.

It may be mentioned that even at that time, it was claimed by the Indian authorities that there could be a Chinese cyber attack behind the cyber attack in Mumbai.

According to media reports, all these incidents were part of a major cyber campaign by China aimed at disrupting India's power grid. Not only that, China had even planned that if India put pressure on Galwan, it would plunge the entire country into darkness.

The study revealed that Chinese malware had infiltrated the power supply control system in India amid the ongoing stalemate in the Himalayas. It also included high voltage transmission substations and thermal power plants.

The Chinese cyber attack was exposed by the American cyber firm Recorded Future. However, the company also learned that most of the malware was never active. Stuart Solomon, the company's chief operating officer, told how the Chinese company Red Echo secretly tried to control about a dozen power grids in India with the help of advanced cyber attack technology.