Chinese cyber thieves hack into DRDO’s web sites

Chinese hackers have attacked websites of India's top security organisation, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), causing one of the biggest security breaches of the file systems of hundreds of key DRDO and other security officials.

The hacking has compromised sensitive files related to the cabinet committee on security (CCS), the highest decision-making body for security issues of the government.

The cyber thieves, sitting in the Guangdong province of China, have also stolen files belonging to the governments of the United States, Russia, and South Korea.

The hacking, which is believed to be officially sponsored by the Chinese government, was detected after officials of the Information Dominance Group (IDG) and private cyber security officials began to track down the `NetTraveler Trojan and Key logger' that had infected Indian systems.

Officials of the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO), the official technical intelligence wing, working with private cyber security experts detected the breach after they cracked open a file called ''army cyber policy''. The file was attached to email accounts of senior DRDO officials at high speeds.

NTRO experts who tracked the origin of the file discovered that all the sensitive files stolen from the infected systems were uploaded into a server in China's Guangdong province.