Chinese Threat Actors like Red Echo Likely to Continue Targeting India’s Infrastructure in 2021

As bilateral tensions continue to rise, “We expect to see a continued increase in cyber operations being conducted by China-linked groups such as RedEcho, in line with national strategic interests,” Recorded Future’s report stated.

Further, according to the report, China will likely also continue to exert influence over other nations, particularly those that are within the sphere of influence of their BRI investment programme, which may lead to more cyber operations aimed at furthering strategic advantage.

Ahlberg ruled out the possibility of the targeting being done to gain material advantage or for cyber espionage.

According to him, the targeting poses “pre-positioning concerns”. This means the targeting was done to achieve network positioning in advance to gain some specific advanatages.

According to the company’s findings, this pre-positioning could have been done to:

• Intelligence gathering for future cyber activity
• Place…