India's Health System On The Target Of Cyber Hackers! Cyber Attack On ICMR Server After AIIMS And Safdarjung
Days after a cyber attack on the servers of the two premier health institutes All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi and SafThe report quoting an official from the National Informatics Centre (NIC) said that on November 30, hackers made 6,000 attempts, in 24 hours, to breach the ICMR server firewall. According to the official, an attack was made from a Hong Kong-based blacklisted IP address, 103.152.220.133. ICMR's website is hosted at the NIC Data Centre, which according to the official, is updated regularly. The server firewall did not have any loopholes, and thus the attack attempts were unsuccessful. The ICMR has found the website in order, said the official."The attackers were blocked, they couldn't succeed. We have alerted the team about it. If the firewall had some loopholes, then the attackers might have succeeded in breaching the security of the website," the NIC official said.The attack on ICMR comes just days after the ransomware attack...