Indian Council of Medical Research thwarts 6,000 hacking attempts

The Indian Council of Medical Research has disclosed that it was recently subjected to a cyberattack.

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by ANI cited unnamed officials who claimed that hackers tried to break through the website of India’s peak body for biomedical research 6,000 times on 30 November.

These attempts, however, have been blocked by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), which hosts ICMR’s website. The NIC was also able to trace the hackers’ IP…