#Nuclear time hack Pc#
In their statement, they claimed the infected PC was connected to the administrative network, which they say is "isolated from the critical internal network." On October 30, the NPCI confirmed that malware was in fact discovered on their systems, and that CERT-India first noticed the attack on September 4, 2019. In a press release they decried "false information" on social media and insisted the KNPP nuclear power plant is "stand alone and not connected to outside cyber network and internet" and that "any cyber attack on the Nuclear Power Plant Control System is not possible." Kaspersky reported it later, called it DTrack."Īt first the Nuclear Power Plant Corporation of India (NPCI) denied it. The 3rd party then shared the IoCs with the NCSC's office over the proceeding days. A third party "contacted me & I notified National Cyber Security Coordinator on Sep 4 (date is crucial). In a later tweet, Singh clarified that he did not discover the malware himself. Extremely mission-critical targets were hit," noting in a quote tweet that he was aware of the attack as early as September 7, 2019, calling it a "causus belli" (an attack sufficiently grave to provoke a war). Domain controller-level access Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant.
Pukhraj Singh a "noted cyber intelligence specialist" who was "instrumental in setting up of the cyber-warfare operations centre of the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO)," according to The New Indian Express, tweeted: "So, it's public now. The news came to light, as it so often does these days, on Twitter. What follows is an explanation of how India's Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) got hacked - and how it could have been easily avoided. If you think attacking civilian infrastructure is a war crime, you'd be right, but spies from countries around the world are fighting a silent, dirty war to pre-position themselves on civilian infrastructure - like energy-producing civilian nuclear plants - to be able to commit sabotage during a moment of geopolitical tension.
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