As of Tuesday, Recorded Future could see a ‘handshake’ — indicating an exchange of traffic — between a China-linked group and an Indian maritime port, said Stuart Solomon, the firm’s chief operating officer, according to the Bloomberg report.
Most of these connections were still operational as recently as 28 February, Solomon said.
“There’s still an active connection between the attacker and the attackee,” Mr Solomon said, referring to the port. “It’s still happening.”
A spokesman for the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology wasn’t immediately available for comment.
The intrusions into the country’s critical infrastructure have been occurring since at least the middle of last year, according to Recorded Future, which tracks back to the start of a bloody skirmish between Indian and Chinese soldiers at a border post in the Himalayas.
Recorded Future, a Boston-based cybersecurity firm that tracks malicious activity by nation-state actors, hasn’t made any connection or…
