Chinese Hackers Attempt To Attack ICMR Website After AIIMS

The official revealed that some Chinese hackers consistently tried to attack the website of the ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research) for 6000 times within 24 hours.

A government official claims that hackers attempted to access the website of the premier health research organization ICMR, but their attempts were thwarted. 

The official reported that on November 30, hackers who appeared to be from Hong Kong attempted to target the website of the Indian Council of Medical Research approximately 6000 times in a 24-hour period. 

The claimed ransomware attack that allegedly crippled AIIMS online services is immediately followed by these strikes.

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“The information on the ICMR website is secure. The firewall is from NIC and is updated frequently because the website is hosted at NIC Data Center. The attack has been successfully stopped, “added the official.

Even while government sources said that the servers’ e-Hospital data had been restored just a few days prior, the server at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in this city was out of commission for about eight days. 

The Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) division of the Delhi Police has filed a case of extortion and cyberterrorism.

In a ransomware attack, hackers block access to data or a device and demand payment as a ransom before they can unlock it. 

The eHospital database has been recovered on the servers, according to AIIMS authorities. Before the services could be resumed, they claimed that the network was being sanitized.

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After 5 out of 100 physical and virtual servers were compromised by attacks that some government officials think originated in China.

The experts from CERT-IN, NIC, and the National Security Council Secretariat, under the direction of National Cyber Security Coordinator Lt Gen (Retd) Rajesh Pant, have been testing the system’s resilience to future attacks on the servers of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, over the past two days.