Email of Indian envoy to Uzbekistan hacked
Date of Publishing:17/8/2010
Location:Hyderabad
New Delhi: Some hackers, based outside India, have recently hacked the e-mail of the Indian ambassador to Uzbekistan and sent 'Trojan' virus to a number of home ministry officers with an intention to infiltrate in the computer networks of the North Block, prompting the security agencies to send an advisory not to open such mails that were being sent from the diplomat’s e-mail account and take other precautions.
The virus, concealed inside a sham list of Indian terrorists, has even escaped the Trend Micro Anti-virus software deployed by the government's IT arm — the National Informatics Centre (NIC) — in official computers.
"The Intelligence Bureau has intimated that a number of senior officers in ministry of home affairs have received a malicious mail from the email ID — amb.tashkent@mea.gov.in — containing a 'Trojan' concealed inside a sham list of indigenous Indian terrorists," an official circular said.
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