India successfully thwarts Distributed Denial of Service attacks by China
New Delhi, June 18: China has opened another front of attacks with the Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks on the Indian information websites.
The attacks are also on the country's financial payments system, Intelligence Bureau officials have told OneIndia.
The DDOS attacks are malicious attempts to hit a network by flooding it with artificially created internet traffic. The IB source says that several targets such as ATMs, banking systems and government websites have been zeroed in on.
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The attacks began on Tuesday and even continued on Wednesday. Investigations have shown that these attacks have been traced to Chengdu, which is the headquarters of the People's Liberation Army's Unit 61398. However, all the attacks were unsuccessful and they were thwarted.
Meanwhile Indian Intelligence agencies have flagged the use of several Chinese apps stating that they are capable of extracting a large amount of data.
These include Zoom, Tik Tok, UC Browser, Shareit, Xender and Clean Master.
The intel has said that these apps had the potential to be used as spyware and this could be detrimental to national security.
In April, the Union Home Ministry had issued an advisory on the secure use of Zoom meeting platform by private individuals. It said that it not for use by government offices, officials or official purposes.
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The advisory said that Zoom is not a safe platform. Those private individuals who would still like to use Zoom for private purposes may follow the guidelines, the MHA had also said.
Chinese apps the Intelligence Bureau wants you to avoid:
TikTok,
Vault-Hide,
Vigo
Video,
Bigo
Live,
Weibo,
WeChat,
SHAREit,
UC
News,
UC
Browser
BeautyPlus,
QQ
Mail,
QQ
NewsFeed,
WeSync,
SelfieCity,
Clash
of
Kings,
Mail
Master,
Mi
Video
call-Xiaomi,
Parallel
Space,
Photo
Wonder,
APUS
Browser,
VivaVideo-
QU
Video
Inc,
Perfect
Corp,
CM
Browser,
Virus
Cleaner
(Hi
Security
Lab),
Mi
Community,
DU
recorder,
YouCam
Makeup,
Mi
Store,
360
Security,
DU
Battery
Saver,
DU
Browser,
DU
Cleaner,
DU
Privacy,
Clean
Master
-
Cheetah,
QQ
International,
QQ
Launcher,
QQ
Security
Centre,
QQ
Player,
QQ
Music,
CacheClear
DU
apps
studio,
Baidu
Translate,
Baidu
Map,
Wonder
Camera,
ES
File
Explorer,
Xender,
ClubFactory,
Helo,
LIKE,
Kwai,
ROMWE,
SHEIN,
NewsDog.