Risk intelligence (08/03/2021) - India

Last week, The New York Times published an article detailing the possibility that a city-wide grid failure in Mumbai last year that left millions without power for several hours could have been the result of a cyberattack.

Much of the story is based on an analytical report by cyber threat research firm Recorded Future.

The report described a substantial increase in suspected “targeted intrusion activity” directed at Indian assets, primarily in the power sector, from state-sponsored hacking groups, but noted that no link between the outage and a cyberattack has been substantiated.