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Provide strategic leadership and coherence across Government to respond to cyber security threats against the identified critical information infrastructure. Coordinate, share, monitor, collect, analyze and forecast, national-level threats to CII for policy guidance, expertise sharing and situational awareness for early warning or alerts.
It liaisons with the Office of National Cyber Security Coordinator, National Security Council and National Information Board in terms of the nation's cyber security and threats. As a nodal entity, India's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) plays a crucial role under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology(MeitY).
The scheme to set up the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre was approved in October 2018 by the Ministry of Home Affairs (India). It was inaugurated in New Delhi in January 2020 by Amit Shah, the Home Minister of India. [6] In June 2020, on the recommendation of I4C, the Government of India banned 59 Chinese origin mobile apps. [7] [8]
The National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC) is an operational cybersecurity and e-surveillance agency in India. It is intended to screen communication metadata and co-ordinate the intelligence gathering activities of other agencies.
It will be India’s first layer for cyber threat monitoring and all communication with government and private service providers would be through this body only. The NCCC will be in virtual contact with the control room of all ISPs to scan traffic within the country, flowing at the point of entry and exit, including international gateway.
Interpol's Cyber Fusion Center began a collaboration with key cybersecurity players to distribute information on the latest online scams, cyber threats, and risks to internet users. Since 2017, reports on social engineering frauds, ransomware, phishing, and other attacks have been distributed to security agencies in over 150 countries. [113]
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Towards the end of May, the threats extended to commercial establishments and government buildings. Mumbai Police received a call about a bomb threat at a McDonald's in Dadar, Mumbai, on 19 May. [15] On 22 May, a bomb threat was received at the North Block, which houses the office of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).