Cyberattack on India's Largest Aerospace Research Firm Under NIA Radar, Case Registered

Bengaluru: National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday launched an investigation into incident of ‘cyberterrorist attack’ on government-owned National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), India’s largest aerospace research company, on November 15 last year.  

federal anti-terror agency lodged a case in ransomware attack incident, suspected to have been carried out by world's most notorious cybercrime enterprise called LockBit, revealed sources. 

An affiliate of government’s Council of Scientific and Industry Research, NAL Bengaluru is only government aerospace R&D laboratory in country’s civilian sector. 

It came under a ransomware attack on November 15 last year. Subsequently, LockBit threatened government-owned firm to publish stolen data, including classified letters, if it failed pay an unspecified ransom amount.

One of world’s most active ransomware-as-a-service operations groups, LockBit has been several times named in data ft and encryption, followed by extortion and data leak. 

Its name first came to fore in 2019, with its name at that time as ABCD. Since n, it has hacked into thousands of businesses, schools, medical facilities and government establishments around world.