India
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New Delhi, Mar 01: China on Monday refuted reports that Chinese hackers were behind the massive power outage that wiped out India’s financial capital Mumbai last year.
Releasing a statement, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin said, “As a staunch defender of cyber security, China firmly opposes and cracks down on all forms of cyber attacks.”
“Speculation and fabrication have no role to play on the issue of cyber attacks, as it is very difficult to trace the origin of a cyber attack. It is highly irresponsible to accuse a particular party when there is no sufficient evidence around, China is firmly opposed to such irresponsible and ill-intentioned practice,” Wang added.
Amidst the tense border tension between India and China, a Chinese government-linked group of hackers targeted India’s critical power grid system through malware, a US company has said in its latest study,…
