No impact on power grid on account of any malware attack, says govt

The new study has linked the Mumbai blackout to the India-China border skirmish earlier that summer in the remote Galwan Valley, where at least two dozen soldiers from both sides succumbed to injuries, according to a report in The New York Times. The study states that the power outage was part of a broad Chinese cyber campaign against India, sending the message that “if India pressed its claims too hard, the lights could go out across the country”.

Further, the ministry added that rapid action was taken by the chief information security officers (CISOs) at all the control centres under operation by POSOCO for any advisory from different agencies like NCIIPC, CERT-in, CERT-Trans etc. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-in) is the nodal agency to deal with cyber security threats such as phishing and hacking. For critical information infrastructure protection, the National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC) is a national nodal agency.