Increase in state-sponsored cyber security attacks on government bodies

Pune: State-sponsored hackers could target India’s health ministry and corporate donors to the PM Cares Fund, cyber security experts have said, basing their conclusions on conversations tracked on what is known as the Dark Web.

Dark Web refers to that area of cyberspace where content cannot be searched using normal search engines because it is encrypted.

Cybersecurity firm Cyfirma said it had alerted the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In), the country’s nodal cyber security agency, about conversations linked to a Pakistan state-sponsored group that identifies itself as ‘IOK’.