Health Ministry urges CERT-In to look into hacking attempt of its website by a Russian group
By MYBRANDBOOK
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has been approached by the Union Health Ministry to look into the reported attempt of hacking of its website allegedly by a Russian hacker group.
Russian hacker group – Phoenix tried to hack the website and managed to get access to the ministry's Health Management Information System portal which has details of all Indian hospitals, employees and physicians, claimed by CloudSEK’s security experts.
"We have sought details and asked the CERT-In to look into the alleged hacking of the health ministry's website. They will submit a report," an official source told a news source.
CERT-In is the national nodal agency for responding to computer security incidents and provides prevention and response services to government departments and private bodies.
The CloudSEK report says that this attack is "a consequence of India's agreement over the oil price cap and sanctions of G20 over the Russia-Ukraine war", mentioned by the hacking group.
"The motive behind this target was the sanctions imposed against the Russian Federation where Indian authorities decided not to violate the sanctions as well as comply with the price ceiling for Russian oil approved by G7 countries," CloudSEK said.
"This decision resulted in multiple polls on the Telegram channel of the Russian Hacktivist Phoenix asking the followers for their votes," it stated.
CloudSEK stated that Phoenix has been active since January 2022 and is known for phishing scams and has a history of targeting hospitals based in Japan and the UK, a US-based healthcare organisation serving the US military and DDoS attack on the website of the Spanish foreign ministry, among others.
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