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Sumit Ganguly, Carol Evans, Michael Kugelman, Harsh V. Pant, Yogesh Joshi, Sumit Ganguly

As India’s Physical Borders Quiet Down, Its Virtual Ones Are Under Siege

A passenger walks on a railway track after trains got stranded due to a major power outage from grid failure in Mumbai on Oct. 12, 2020. Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images

India has recently made news by agreeing to cease-fires at two of its disputed borders: one with China and one with Pakistan. But that doesn’t mean that tensions in the region have faded.

Late last month, the U.S. cybersecurity firm Recorded Future reported that it had alerted India’s Computer Emergency Response Team, the government body responsible for protecting the country’s critical digital infrastructure, that a Chinese state-sponsored organization had been trying to infiltrate vital computer networks in India.

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