FIRE SALE IS A CYBER SECURITY PANDEMIC; UNSEEN, ALL PERVASIVE AND FATAL

FIRE SALE IS A CYBER SECURITY PANDEMIC; UNSEEN, ALL PERVASIVE AND FATAL: Fire Sale is an all-out cyberwarfare attack that performs a three-stage systematic attack on a nation's computer infrastructure. Just because something has never happened does not mean that it would never happen. Commercial aircrafts being used as missiles hitting Twin Towers in a suicide attack is as weird as it can get. This was nearly twenty years back. The manner the digital technology has paced up in its negative avatar, can beat even the best of the sci-fi movies hollow. Whatever might be the enterprise we are in, we can afford to be oblivious of this fact, only at our own peril. 10 power assets, Mumbai, Tamil Nadu ports came under RedEcho cyberattack, should be taken as a timely warning for things which can go awry. The recent SolarWinds attack in the US on the government, its high profile agencies and several other private companies is a clear indication of the same trend.

 

A bit of a history would not be out of place. All the critical infrastructure cyber-attack game started with the Stuxnet attack 2010 on the Iranian nuclear facility at Natanz in a very concerted manner. This can certainly be termed as the 9/11 of Cyber Security. Stuxnet targeted at the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems and is believed to be responsible for *causing substantial damage to the nuclear program of Iran.* The world experienced a military grade cyber weapon for the first time, a *50,000 line complex code, delivered through a pen drive, in a buffered – air gapped system with a payload of 20 zero-day exploits* was the tech bundling....Read More