The Twitter handle of the Union Ministry of Jal Shakti was hacked on Thursday morning. Since then, security agencies and cyber experts have been involved in the investigation. According to media reports, now the account has been restored. This is the second major cyber attack on a government site after the Delhi AIIMS server was hacked last week.
tweeted one after the other
A tweet promoting the crypto wallet Sui Wallet was posted at 5:38 am on Tuesday from the Twitter handle of the ministry. The account's profile photo was also changed from the tricolor to the needle logo, along with the cover photo to show the Sui logo and name. Several unknown accounts were also tagged in the tweet. However, after some time the account was restored and all the tweets were deleted. Security agencies and cyber experts are probing the incident.
Cyber attack on Delhi AIIMS server
9 days ago on 23 November, there was a cyber attack on the server of Delhi AIIMS. During this, the hackers reportedly demanded Rs 200 crore in cryptocurrency, although the Delhi Police denied any ransom. After this, a case of extortion and cyber terrorism was registered. At present, the India Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN), Delhi Police, and representatives of the Ministry of Home Affairs are probing the incident. The source of the hacking is not yet known.
There are 3 lakh cyber attacks every month in the country.
According to a recent report by IndusFace, there are about 3 lakh cyber attacks on the healthcare sector in India every month. These are the second most cyber attacks in the world. There are about half a million cyber attacks on the American health sector every month.
More cases found in 2021
There were at least 130 different ransomware active in 2020 and 30,000 groups of malware were found in the first half of 2021. which looked and operated identically. Out of these 100 ransomware are such that their activity never stops. Attackers are using a variety of methods, including well-known botnet malware and other remote access trojans (RATs), to deliver their ransomware to as many people as possible.
In most cases, they use new ransomware samples. However, Google says that there have been no ransomware attacks on any professional, educational, or customer Chrome OS devices on its Google Chrome OS cloud-first platform.
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