Chinese hackers reach India’s Russian embassy

Source: The Economic Times.

NEW DELHI: The assault by Chinese hackers on Indian sites continue unabated. Reports from Moscow said the website of the Indian embassy in Moscow was attacked twice by Chinese hackers, prompting the mission to boost its cyber security.

The two cyber attacks were traced to Chinese servers. The embassy’s Local Area Network (LAN) also has no direct internet access and the firewall has been fortified, they said, adding the only hacking victim was the official website, maintained by the information wing. The website allows for online filling of visa and passport applications.

“The indianembassy.ru website in the public domain was affected to some extent that e-mail IDs of the senior officials were cloned in the .com or gmail domains to spread the malware,” agency reports quoting embassy officials said. “For example for the legitimate ‘infowing@ indianembassy.ru’ , IDs like ‘infowing@indianembassy . com’ and ‘infowing@gmail .com’ were used to spread spam with malware,” officials said.