China threatens the grid in India
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Amidst the tense border tension between India and China, a Chinese government-linked group of hackers targeted India’s critical power grid system through malware, a US company has claimed in its latest study, raising suspicion whether last year’s massive power outage in Mumbai was a result of the online intrusion.
Recorded Future, a Massachusetts-based company which studies the use of the internet by state actors, in its recent report details the campaign conducted by a China-linked threat activity group RedEcho targeting the Indian power sector.
The activity was identified through a combination of large-scale automated network traffic analytics and expert analysis.
Data sources include the Recorded Future Platform, SecurityTrails, Spur, Farsight and common open-source tools and techniques, the report said.
On October 12, a grid failure in Mumbai resulted in massive power outages, stopping trains on tracks, hampering those working from home amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and hitting the stuttering economic activity hard.
It took two hours for the power supply to resume for essential services, prompting Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to order an enquiry into the incident.
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Amidst the tense border tension between India and China, a Chinese government-linked group of hackers targeted India’s critical power grid system through malware, a US company has claimed in its latest study, raising suspicion whether last year’s massive power outage in Mumbai was a result of the online intrusion.
Recorded Future, a Massachusetts-based company which studies the use of the internet by state actors, in its recent report details the campaign conducted by a China-linked threat activity group RedEcho targeting the Indian power sector.
The activity was identified through a combination of large-scale automated network traffic analytics and expert analysis.
Data sources include the Recorded Future Platform, SecurityTrails, Spur, Farsight and common open-source tools and techniques, the report said.
On October 12, a grid failure in Mumbai resulted in massive power outages, stopping trains on tracks, hampering those working from home amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and hitting the stuttering economic activity hard.
It took two hours for the power supply to resume for essential services, prompting Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to order an enquiry into the incident.
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Maybe the world needs to isolate the Chinese a bit. I don't doubt their economy could be twisted into a pretzel in short order.
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Maybe the world needs to isolate the Chinese a bit. I don't doubt their economy could be twisted into a pretzel in short order.
@jolly said in China threatens the grid in India:
Maybe the world needs to isolate the Chinese a bit. I don’t doubt their economy could be twisted into a pretzel in short order.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership could have done that, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton had the strategic acumen to understand that, stupid Trump walked away from it.
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@jolly said in China threatens the grid in India:
Maybe the world needs to isolate the Chinese a bit. I don’t doubt their economy could be twisted into a pretzel in short order.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership could have done that, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton had the strategic acumen to understand that, stupid Trump walked away from it.
@axtremus said in China threatens the grid in India:
@jolly said in China threatens the grid in India:
Maybe the world needs to isolate the Chinese a bit. I don’t doubt their economy could be twisted into a pretzel in short order.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership could have done that, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton had the strategic acumen to understand that, stupid Trump walked away from it.
Just no.
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@jolly said in China threatens the grid in India:
Maybe the world needs to isolate the Chinese a bit. I don’t doubt their economy could be twisted into a pretzel in short order.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership could have done that, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton had the strategic acumen to understand that, stupid Trump walked away from it.
@axtremus said in China threatens the grid in India:
@jolly said in China threatens the grid in India:
Maybe the world needs to isolate the Chinese a bit. I don’t doubt their economy could be twisted into a pretzel in short order.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership could have done that, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton had the strategic acumen to understand that, stupid Trump walked away from it.
Yeah, can you believe he said this
In my view, the trade deal would result in job losses in the United States, make the global race to the bottom even worse, harm the environment, undermine democracy and increase the price of prescription drugs for some of the poorest people in the world. This should not be controversial. It is the exact same position that Secretary Clinton and I have taken during the campaign, and opposition to the TPP is the position of the overwhelming majority of Democrats in Congress. One of the major reasons why the middle class has been in a 40-year decline: poverty has been increasing and the gap between the very rich and everyone else has been growing wider and wider due to our disastrous trade policies. You do not need a Ph.D. in economics to understand that our trade agreements have failed.[1
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@axtremus said in China threatens the grid in India:
@jolly said in China threatens the grid in India:
Maybe the world needs to isolate the Chinese a bit. I don’t doubt their economy could be twisted into a pretzel in short order.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership could have done that, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton had the strategic acumen to understand that, stupid Trump walked away from it.
Yeah, can you believe he said this
In my view, the trade deal would result in job losses in the United States, make the global race to the bottom even worse, harm the environment, undermine democracy and increase the price of prescription drugs for some of the poorest people in the world. This should not be controversial. It is the exact same position that Secretary Clinton and I have taken during the campaign, and opposition to the TPP is the position of the overwhelming majority of Democrats in Congress. One of the major reasons why the middle class has been in a 40-year decline: poverty has been increasing and the gap between the very rich and everyone else has been growing wider and wider due to our disastrous trade policies. You do not need a Ph.D. in economics to understand that our trade agreements have failed.[1
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@axtremus said in China threatens the grid in India:
The Trans-Pacific Partnership
Part of the problem with the US backing out of the TPP is that China filled the emptiness by recently signing a somewhat "equivalent" type of trade deal with other Asian countries, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).
Obviously, the RCEP has been in study for a long time (just like with the TPP), but the signing of it give mainland China more strength in the region. Some trade that would have gone to the US under the TPP will now possibly go to China under the RCEP. Could mean an overall "lessening" of US influence in the region unless the US takes some steps to improve.
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@loki said in China threatens the grid in India:
poverty has been increasing
Well, that's just not true.
@george-k said in China threatens the grid in India:
@loki said in China threatens the grid in India:
poverty has been increasing
Well, that's just not true.
That quote was Bernie Saunders. Apparently the far left doesn’t like TPP either.
