Chinese hackers have attempted to penetrate India’s most sensitive government office.
The National Security Advisor M. K. Narayanan told The Times that his office and other sensitive government departments were targeted on December 15, the same date that US companies reported cyber attacks from China.
‘This was not the first instance of an attempt to hack into our computers’, he said in the interview. The attack came in the form of an e-mail with a PDF attachment containing a “Trojan” virus, which allows a hacker to access a computer remotely and download or delete files. The virus was detected and officials were told not to log on until it was eliminated, Narayanan disclosed.
He added: ‘People seem to be fairly sure it was the Chinese. It is difficult to find the exact source but this is the main suspicion. It seems well founded’.
