Indian Navy Computers Hacked , Virus Sent Sensitive Data To Chinese IP Addresses

[RoBoGhOsT]

Indian Navy Computers Hacked , Virus Sent Sensitive Data To Chinese IP Addresses


Indian military computer systems around Vishakhapatnam have been hacked and planted bugs which caused them to send confidential data to IP addresses in China .


The computers were found to contain virus that secretly collected and sent data and documents to Chinese IP addresses . The loss caused by the attach is still being estimated , and according to officers it was "premature at this stage" .


Responding to a questionnaire sent by The Sunday Express on whether highly classified data had been sent to IP addresses in China due to the bug, the Navy said: “An inquiry has been convened and findings of the report are awaited. It needs to be mentioned that there is a constant threat in the cyber domain from inimical hack ers worldwide.”

According to sources the breach has occurred possibly due to use of pen drives which are prohibited in naval offices . The naval computers containing classified data are not connected to the Internet and not supposed to have ports for connecting external storage .


The virus apparently created a hidden folder and collected specific files and documents based on certain ‘key words’ that it has been programmed to identify.
The documents remained hidden on the pen drives until they were put in computers that were connected to the Internet, after which the bug quietly sent the files to specific IP addresses.


Source

 

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The chinese are becoming too nosy these days......

 

[ALPHA17]

The chinese are becoming too nosy these days.

Welcome to the high stakes world of Super-powers, espionage and insecure systems.

If you think this is it, look what China has done to a major US defence corporation.

It is actually how the world plays this game, when it comes to push, China shoves and we are spineless enough not to react.

Thanks for sharing @RoBoGhOsT, I read this article on arstechnica yesterday; Indian Express is the actual source. Cheerio!!

 

[ALPHA17]

is it even possible to hacked the best and high rated military and navy computers,but the indian express
didnt give us the wrong information about this. now god will help us from all the other countries. china
giving us the china product and take the best product from india. nice review.

@SinChan, no offence but you really need to go to English elementary.

Next the best and high rated military computer work on Windows because Linux was found to be highly unfriendly by the top brass. We had a modified Linux distro to meet the needs of the Air Force but it was scrapped because of the aforementioned and finally if pen-drives are not allowed and if you stuck them into these 'sensitive' systems it was bound to happen.

And finally this is not a review.

 

[thirumalkumaran]

any details of "Project Iceman", "Sector 7" or "ladiesman217" leaked?

 

[ALPHA17]

any details of "Project Iceman", "Sector 7" or "ladiesman217" leaked?

No way of telling that, though I do not quite doubt that China will have these. Even if it does not have any substantial details it has the upper hand as of now because they will atleast have a basic outline of what we are planning in that sector. Just hope that the plans of the the 'pen shelter' has not been compromised.

what the hell firewalls do ...If computers are subjected to get so easily , this often prompts me to learn some hacking and show some patriotism

Dude firewalls will stop squat in this scenario. Read the report thoroughly atleast, it explicitly mentions that data was smuggled out via infected [TROJAN] PEN-DRIVES and then sent via net to the Chinese IP address.

 

[ssdivisiongermany1933]

what the hell firewalls do ...If computers are subjected to get so easily , this often prompts me to learn some hacking and show some patriotism

 

[ALPHA17]

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[kuduku]

is it even possible to hacked the best and high rated military and navy computers,but the indian express
didnt give us the wrong information about this. now god will help us from all the other countries. china
giving us the china product and take the best product from india. nice review.

who say they are best and high rated . They are same as any central government lowest bidder contract which supplies obsolete and old configurations pc . Try to read the tender which comes up in newspapers , server configuration is 512MB RAM with 1st gen core i is the latest and recommended in tenders

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now no offense against you ALPHA17 but i am living in Indian navy bro and i no this all stuff pen-drive an all stuff.

didnt read that, you are living there so would be aware

 

[thirumalkumaran]

now no offense against you @ALPHA17 but i am living in Indian navy bro and i no this all stuff pen-drive an all stuff.

No wonder it is so easy to hack....

 

[ALPHA17]

now no offense against you @ALPHA17 but i am living in Indian navy bro and i no this all stuff pen-drive an all stuff.

can you explain why do i need to go to English elementary school.

This is the reason, I could not make any sense of your post that you "no this all pen-drive and all stuff" what does it mean?

I think another member supports me.

No wonder it is so easy to hack....

So go improve your English OR if you already know its nuances as you are 'living in Indian navy' stop using SMS shorthand it leaves me and a plenty of other members flummoxed.

 

[ayanavish]

According to sources the breach has occurred possibly due to use of pen drives which are prohibited in naval offices . The naval computers containing classified data are not connected to the Internet and not supposed to have ports for connecting external storage .

Strange no ports, then how could someone use a pen-drive!!

Dude if it so easy try to hack by yourself.

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can you explain why do i need to go to English elementary school.

grammatical errors

 

[ALPHA17]

but you remember the Taj mahal incident do you. we are the one 'who came with the victory'.
we are living a more secure life then you do. sorry but it's true.

Yes I remember the attacks on Taj in Bombay in 2009, I was giving my boards that year. Anyways off the board are you implying that you are --

• a member of the MARCO's?
• your father is in the Navy?
• you are a guy who doesn't want to learn English Grammar whatsoever.

I will not respond to your retort of a secure lifestyle because my father is in the IAF.

Just can it, I have tried to tell you what I wanted go ahead however you want. Enough OT!!

Good day to you Sire and best regards.

 

[axeman]

Actually the networks used by the Indian Military forces are not connected to the internet at all at any point.

 

[ALPHA17]

Actually the networks used by the Indian Military forces are not connected to the internet at all at any point.

Certain systems are connected, also most of these systems [as far as I know] run on Linux and have their I / O ports like USB, FireWire et al sealed up. But the official desktops that most officers use runs on Windows and have no OR very limited access to the net.

Do not know about the Navy protocol! :sleep:

No i don't no about Navy protocol because its private. I saw my father cabin computer and all the asvini's hospital computer they all are run into windows OS.
you know asvini hospital ALPHA17. i think you know about this because your father is in IAF. so you have visited in this hospital sometime.

No Sire, father never was posted to Bombay and I am thankful for that.

 

[blackperl]

i never understand,what the need of sensitive data pc to keep online with internet ??they should better keep withing the office lan

 

[comp@ddict]

Dude. You're copy-pasting from the Source article.

Refrain from doing that unless you want to get banned from posting news (for money of course).

 

[RoBoGhOsT]

comp@ddict - its according to what rules admins have told me . not full copy paste and such paragraphs like what mcafee said and what navy officials said are copied by many other sites from the source .