An inquiry into the suspected malware attack at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, has been started by a special cell of the Delhi police.
Official sources claim that a team from the Central Forensic Lab (CFSL) has been sent in to examine the AIIMS Delhi server that has been attacked in order to determine where the malware attack originated.
CFSL Ahmadabad and Delhi’s combined team is attempting to determine whether the attack originated from abroad.
The Cyber Prevention Awareness Detection (CyPAD) squad of the Delhi Police, now called the Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) unit, has also started a parallel inquiry, according to IFSO sources.
They stated that “the precise source of hacking is not yet identified.”
Multiple departments of the Union Home Ministry and IT Ministry are reportedly working on the correction and restoration of servers affected by the suspected malware attack, according to official sources.
According to the sources, Delhi Police has launched a formal investigation to determine how the servers at AIIMS Delhi were compromised, and a team from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has also visited the hospital and joined the investigation.
Authorities at AIIMS Delhi said that the e-Hospital data had been recovered in a statement released on Tuesday. “The servers have been updated with the ehospital data. Before the services may be restarted, the network is to be cleaned. Due to the volume of data and the numerous servers and computers required for medical services, the procedure is taking some time. To ensure cyber security, measures are being taken “they claimed.
The statement stated that “all hospital services, including outpatient, in-patient, laboratories, etc. continue to run on manual mode.”
The investigation agencies advise continuing to ban Internet access at the healthcare center. A new set of Standard operating procedures (SOP) for the manual admission, discharge, and transfer of patients’ related tasks had also been released by AIIMS while the ehospital was still unavailable.
