The government is aware of a report which pointed out penetration into the Indian information systems belonging to key government organisations, Pilot said.
The government today said a security agency has already launched investigation into theft of documents from Indian embassies even before reports of such incidents surfaced.
In a written reply to a query, Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot informed the Rajya Sabha that "an agency of the government has been investigating such types of attacks by adversaries for some time. An investigation had already been launched into the matter prior to the reports that appeared in the media."
The government is aware of a report which pointed out penetration into the Indian information systems belonging to key government organisations, Pilot said.
He added that the said report brought into light certain documents that have been perceived to be stolen from embassies abroad.
Pilot was reffering to a report titled -- Shadows in the cloud-Investigating Cyber Espionage 2.0 -- published by a group of reasearchers from the Munk School of Global Affairs, Cananda.
He added that the concerned government agency is in close contact with the researchers who had prepared the report.
The agency is working in close coordination with various agencies and service providers to identify reportedly affected computer systems, their locations and thereafter sanitising them.
"The investigation will enable a comprehensive view on the subject to deal with threats to be worked out," he said.
To another question on whether India has proposed to collaborate with the US in the area of cyber security, Pilot said India and the US agreed to identify the areas of cooperation and explore the posibility of cooperation in those areas under the aegis of the Indo-US Working Group.
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