Aiims cyber attack news

After reports of yet another cyber attack on the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) came to the fore, Minister of State in Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Rajeev Chandrasekar, clarified that it was not a "cyber incident or a breach." The institution too clarified saying that although it had detected a malware attack on June 6, the attempt was successfully thwarted. "A malware attack was detected at 1450 hrs by the cyber-security systems in AIIMS, New Delhi. The attempt was successfully thwarted, and the threat was neutralised by the deployed cyber-security systems. The eHospital services remain to be fully secure and are functioning normally," AIIMS, New Delhi said in a tweet. Chandrasekhar responded to a tweet in which a user had shared a screenshot of the website e-hospital.aiims.edu, which displayed an error message stating: "Virus found. The web application firewall has found the following virus while downloading /ehospital." In a tweet, Chandrasekhar stated, "eHospital is an internal application not available for internet users. Someone may have attempted to access this portal, and an alert was generated due to the security layer used by AIIMS. The same person may have taken a screenshot of the error message and circulated it. There is no cyber incident or breach. The error messages have also been rectified now." The eHospital website now displays a regular error message indicating that the server is not found. Last year, AIIMS experienced...

All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), the country’s premier healthcare institution, has reported a massive cyber hacking, which as per officials, is the result of a ransomware attack. The cyber attack has resulted in a server outage affecting daily operations at the hospital, including appointments, patient registration, discharge and more. US Treasury thwarted attack by Russian hacker group last month, says official The US Treasury last month repelled cyber attacks by a pro-Russian hacker group, preventing disruption and confirming the effectiveness of the department's stronger approach to financial system cybersecurity, a US Treasury official said.National Information Centre (NIC), along with Cert-In, is said to be investigating the outage that has now crossed 48 hours. Till the filing of this report, it wasn’t clear whether AIIMS’ servers were back to business or not. Here’s what ransomware attack is, how dangerous it can be and more. What is a ransomware attack Ransomware is a type of malware or malicious software that encrypts the victim’s file (data) and asks for a “ransom” to restore access for the victim. Think of it as an ‘extortion’ where you need to pay up money to get back your stolen data. If the targeted institute/company/person fails to meet the attacker's demand, they risk losing access to the data, and it may end up on the internet, either publicly available to everyone or on sale in some marketplace on the Dark web. How dangerous is a ransomwar...

All India Institute Of Medical Science (AIIMS) is still recovering from the cyberattack it reported almost two weeks ago. While the authorities are sanitising the servers and computers, a circular has revealed that officials of one of the country's apex health institutions were directed to implement cybersecurity policies issued by the government. In a circular dated August 16, concerned officials were directed to comply with cyber security policies issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). The Earlier this year, it was reported that AIIMS, Delhi decided to go paperless from January 1, 2023, and would implement an e-Hospital programme. The programme will have services like automated emails to doctors, ABHA IDs for all patients, doctor-specific OPD appointments, among others. To enforce the same, a demonstration of e-Hospital modules was also carried out on October 17 by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) team. How to link health records with ABHA account using DigiLocker app The health locker services are now available to all registered DigiLocker users. In addition to this, users can also scan and upload their old health records on the app. Here’s how to get it done: AIIMS server are still down The server at AIIMS continues to be down since the hospital first reported the cyber attack on November 23. Internet services are still blocked and all hospital services, including outpatient, in-patient, laborat...

Premium Probe traces AIIMS cyberattack to China, patient data restored Multiple agencies, including the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), are investigating the cyberattack that is feared to have compromised the records of nearly 3-4 crore patients, including high-profile political personalities. The probe into the cyberattack on some servers at AIIMS in the national capital has found that the IP addresses of two emails, which were identified from the headers of files that were encrypted by the hackers, originated from Hong Kong and China’s Henan province, sources told The Indian Express. Sources said the senders used the email service Protonmail, adding that probe agencies have still not located the person, organisation and exact physical location linked to the cyberattack. Also Read | “They have tracked a server address in China. It does not mean that they have located a person or an organisation or the exact physical location. What they have located is an IP address, which is from China. It could be a Chinese physical server or a virtual server. This we will find eventually in the next few days,” top Government sources told At least five servers at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) have been infected by the cyber attack. Multiple agencies, including the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), are investigating the cyberattack that is feared to have compromised the records of nearly 3-4 crore patients, including high-profile p...

Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), widely regarded as India’s foremost government hospital, was targeted by a possible cyber attack on Tuesday, with its servers affected for nearly four hours, hospital authorities and the health ministry confirmed. The incident occurred seven months after AIIMS was hit by a ransomware attack on November 23, which wiped outpatient and research data from its primary and backup servers, and affected the premier institute’s services for around a month. (HT Photo) “A malware attack was detected at 2.50pm by the cybersecurity systems deployed in AIIMS. The attempt was successfully thwarted, and the threat was neutralised by the deployed cyber security systems. The e-Hospital services are fully secure and are functioning normally,” a statement issued by the AIIMS administration said. The incident occurred seven months after AIIMS was hit by a ransomware attack on November 23, which wiped outpatient and research data from its primary and backup servers, and affected the premier institute’s services for around a month. Another incident occurred on June 3, when aspirants of a nursing officer recruitment exam conducted by AIIMS alleged having received screenshots and photos of more than 20 questions, which were a part of the question paper. Union minister of electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar, speaking about Tuesday’s incident, denied a system breach. “E-hospital is an internal application not available ...

Premium Probe traces AIIMS cyberattack to China, patient data restored Multiple agencies, including the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), are investigating the cyberattack that is feared to have compromised the records of nearly 3-4 crore patients, including high-profile political personalities. The probe into the cyberattack on some servers at AIIMS in the national capital has found that the IP addresses of two emails, which were identified from the headers of files that were encrypted by the hackers, originated from Hong Kong and China’s Henan province, sources told The Indian Express. Sources said the senders used the email service Protonmail, adding that probe agencies have still not located the person, organisation and exact physical location linked to the cyberattack. Also Read | “They have tracked a server address in China. It does not mean that they have located a person or an organisation or the exact physical location. What they have located is an IP address, which is from China. It could be a Chinese physical server or a virtual server. This we will find eventually in the next few days,” top Government sources told At least five servers at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) have been infected by the cyber attack. Multiple agencies, including the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), are investigating the cyberattack that is feared to have compromised the records of nearly 3-4 crore patients, including high-profile p...

After reports of yet another cyber attack on the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) came to the fore, Minister of State in Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Rajeev Chandrasekar, clarified that it was not a "cyber incident or a breach." The institution too clarified saying that although it had detected a malware attack on June 6, the attempt was successfully thwarted. "A malware attack was detected at 1450 hrs by the cyber-security systems in AIIMS, New Delhi. The attempt was successfully thwarted, and the threat was neutralised by the deployed cyber-security systems. The eHospital services remain to be fully secure and are functioning normally," AIIMS, New Delhi said in a tweet. Chandrasekhar responded to a tweet in which a user had shared a screenshot of the website e-hospital.aiims.edu, which displayed an error message stating: "Virus found. The web application firewall has found the following virus while downloading /ehospital." In a tweet, Chandrasekhar stated, "eHospital is an internal application not available for internet users. Someone may have attempted to access this portal, and an alert was generated due to the security layer used by AIIMS. The same person may have taken a screenshot of the error message and circulated it. There is no cyber incident or breach. The error messages have also been rectified now." The eHospital website now displays a regular error message indicating that the server is not found. Last year, AIIMS experienced...

All India Institute Of Medical Science (AIIMS) is still recovering from the cyberattack it reported almost two weeks ago. While the authorities are sanitising the servers and computers, a circular has revealed that officials of one of the country's apex health institutions were directed to implement cybersecurity policies issued by the government. In a circular dated August 16, concerned officials were directed to comply with cyber security policies issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). The Earlier this year, it was reported that AIIMS, Delhi decided to go paperless from January 1, 2023, and would implement an e-Hospital programme. The programme will have services like automated emails to doctors, ABHA IDs for all patients, doctor-specific OPD appointments, among others. To enforce the same, a demonstration of e-Hospital modules was also carried out on October 17 by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) team. How to link health records with ABHA account using DigiLocker app The health locker services are now available to all registered DigiLocker users. In addition to this, users can also scan and upload their old health records on the app. Here’s how to get it done: AIIMS server are still down The server at AIIMS continues to be down since the hospital first reported the cyber attack on November 23. Internet services are still blocked and all hospital services, including outpatient, in-patient, laborat...

Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), widely regarded as India’s foremost government hospital, was targeted by a possible cyber attack on Tuesday, with its servers affected for nearly four hours, hospital authorities and the health ministry confirmed. The incident occurred seven months after AIIMS was hit by a ransomware attack on November 23, which wiped outpatient and research data from its primary and backup servers, and affected the premier institute’s services for around a month. (HT Photo) “A malware attack was detected at 2.50pm by the cybersecurity systems deployed in AIIMS. The attempt was successfully thwarted, and the threat was neutralised by the deployed cyber security systems. The e-Hospital services are fully secure and are functioning normally,” a statement issued by the AIIMS administration said. The incident occurred seven months after AIIMS was hit by a ransomware attack on November 23, which wiped outpatient and research data from its primary and backup servers, and affected the premier institute’s services for around a month. Another incident occurred on June 3, when aspirants of a nursing officer recruitment exam conducted by AIIMS alleged having received screenshots and photos of more than 20 questions, which were a part of the question paper. Union minister of electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar, speaking about Tuesday’s incident, denied a system breach. “E-hospital is an internal application not available ...