G20 summit faced cyberattack attempts, about 16 lakh a minute, reveals Centre
I4C wing established by the Home Minister aims to provide a framework and eco-system for Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) to deal with cybercrime in a coordinated and comprehensive manner. While responding to a query, Kumar said that per minute, 16 lakh attacks were noted on the G20 account during the summit, adding, that the attacks started soon after the website was up and peaked during the summit. He revealed that I4C along was able to stop these attempts and maintain the security of website with the assistance of several Indian authorities.
The officer raised concerns about some non-national foreign threat actors operating through the Virtual Private Network (VPN), showing their attempts from China, Cambodia and Malaysia. But he said it is very difficult to say the exact place, as VPN networks disguise the identity of the hacker's real place. As per cyber experts, non-national threat actors send Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) to disrupt and try to sabotage any site.
These attacks could have originated from foreign countries. The G20 summit was the eighteenth meeting of the G20. It was held in Delhi's Bharat Mandapam International Exhibition-Convention Centre on September 9-10 last year.
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