The attack on the website of India’s top medical research centre occurs while AIIMS servers have been offline for two weeks as a result of a ransomware attack.
With the AIIMS servers already compromised, cybercriminals have stepped up their attacks on the websites and patient information systems of other Indian health and research organisations.
On November 30, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) website was targeted more than 6,000 times in a 24-hour period, according to a government employee from the National Informatics Center (NIC), who spoke to MoneyControl on the condition of anonymity
The official responded that the series of attacks on the ICMR website were launched from the Hong Kong-based blacklisted IP address 103.152.220.133.
The attackers were stopped and rendered ineffective.
The team has been informed about it.
According to the NIC officer, if the firewall had any vulnerabilities, the attackers might have been successful in getting beyond the website’s security.
Officials from the ICMR declined to comment on this article.
