Mumbai: Email ID from Cyber ​​Cell of Mumbai Cell of Mumbai Region in Tuesday and phishing sent to other police cells, with infected PDF attachments.
This was a recent second hacking attack on the Maharashtra Government entity, the first was the failure of the 2020 malware power grid caused.
PDF files installed with phishing letters have subjects “terrorists behind the JK attack were shot in Mumbai”.
To make it look legitimate, the subject line states “intelligence input”, the source said.
Email recipients have been suggested by the police not to open files because they can produce malware infestations and thus theft information.
The source that speaks to experts says it is suspected that the hackers might use software to access the e-mail and password cyber and decrypt the eastern region.
During a preliminary investigation, when cyber experts tried to access the complete list of target emails, they could not access it.
Officials said they were trying to track hackers technically.
After hacking China in the grid, the hands of the possibility in PhishingMumbai: Hack email police are the second attack on the state government entity.
On October 12, 2020, malware attacks caused a massive power grid failure, producing blackouts in Mumbai and its surroundings for hours.
At the time of the incident, no one was even suspected of losing a grid failure due to malware attacks.
That the Chinese hacker was responsible for being revealed earlier this year when the state government submitted a report on this issue.
In the second police email hacking, an official said, “It seems that the Prima Facie that the attack was made from Pakistan, Delhi or from a remote village in Uttar Pradesh.” Police Supervisors (Maharashtra Cyber) Sanjay Shintre said, “We have initiated an investigation into hacking and has asked police officers not to open PDF files because they can cause email hacking them.
At present, the technical team comes out of the Shivaji Nagar Police Station, where offices Eastern Cyber ​​cells are located, and studied letters.
“Unauthorized cyber access was punished under Section 43 (a), reading with Section 66, from the Information Technology Act, and was a violation that could be bribed.
“In essence, what reasonable security practices are Cyber ​​Mumbai police who follow the cybercrime done on themselves? I feel all cyberspace police stations must be audited quarterly for security deviations and the same thing must be plugged before the enemy takes advantage,” said Cyber ​​Prashant Mali crime lawyer.
On March 1, the Cyber ​​State Department submitted a report to the Maharashtra government in the failure of Grid Power October 12, 2020, which hit Mumbai and its surroundings.
The report blamed the incident on malware attacks, explaining that 14 Trojans and 8GB of data not achieved were found in the Maharashtra State Electricity Council system.
The minister of house at the time had said, “A famous American company said that maybe it was Chinese who could introduce malware …
our findings were that some foreign companies were involved in planting malware.”