Indian technology infrastructure is vulnerable to zero day attacks
cyber security threats and zero day attacks as leading western countries due to its geopolitical importance, said cybersecurity executives.
Speaking to ET, on the sidelines of the m-WISE Mandiant Security conference, cybersecurity experts said that in general, the threats across the Japan and APAC region have been on the rise.
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He added that these threat actors are groups of hackers who could be both financially motivated as well as motivated by nation states. “India has been an extraordinary example of Chinese targeting of critical infrastructure. Symantec just said, that group is still out there targeting Indian infrastructure, they're still active,” he added.
He added that apart from the power infrastructure, threat actors are focused on transportation and logistics services like railway infrastructure. They could use malware or bugs to create mismanagement beyond just failure of specific systems.
Matt Shelton, head of threat research and analysis at Google Cloud added that from an individual attack perspective, the kind of threats seen in India
