The Government’s malware and botnet cleaning center ‘Cyber Swachhta Kendra’ (CSK) has started working with ISPs, academia, banks and anti-virus companies to provide citizens with tools to protect data on laptops, computers and mobile phones, reports the Financial Times. According to the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY), the initiative currently has 13 banks and 58 ISPs using the facility, and a budget of Rs 90 crore. Note that the Government’s botnet and malware cleaning center was soft launched in December this year. At the time, the center, set up by CERT-In (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team), said it would be responsible for helping citizens disinfect their devices of malware, botnets etc. According to CERT-In it can easily identify which IP addresses are infected since they send out bots or spam, which can then be reported to ISPs. ISPs can direct users to the CERT-In website, where they will be prompted to download an antivirus or malware for free, and disinfect their systems. Note, as we had said before, since CERT-In can only detect outgoing attack traffic, it will be useless against viruses that look to attack a user’s system. However, if the agency works as advertised, it should help in stopping major bot networks from forming in the country and preventing DDoS attacks like the one in July that slowed down Internet traffic in Mumbai, prompting MTNL to block port 25 on its network. Note that it’s not clear which ISPs the agency has currently partnered with, but…
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