In an interesting chain of events, Indian
hackers launched a massive counter attack on Pakistani websites, after a
hacker group from across the border attacked one Kerala Govt. website.
More than 250 Pakistani websites,
which included official website of Pakistan’s President, official website of
Pakistani Govt., official website of Pakistani Railways were hacked within
hours of the incident.
Indian hacking group which call
themselves “The Mallu Cyber Soldiers” claimed the responsibility of this
retaliation. On Twitter, Indian Hacker News described this retaliation as
‘massive payback’. Another hacking group “Hell shield Hackers” have also openly
participated in this counter attack.
How
It Started?
Late Saturday night, official
website of Kerala Govt: Kerala.gov.in was hacked by a person, who
named himself ‘Faisal 1337’.
The text on the homepage had an
Indian flag burning, with text: “Official website of the RC Office,Govt of
Kerala- New Delhi Hacked! Pakistan Zindabad”
Below it, it was mentioned: “We
Are Team Pak Cyber Attacker. Security is just an illusion.”
Faisal’s Facebook page also
mentioned this attack.
This caused a huge backlash of
protest on social media, as it was a direct case of assault on the Indian Govt.
by a Pakistani hacker.
Counter
Attack By Indian Hackers
Within hours, groups of various
Indian hackers collaborated on a huge scale, and the launched a counter attack,
which can be described as one of the fiercest we have ever seen.
After a couple of hours, an Indian
hacker group named “The Mallu Cyber Soldiers” announced that 100+ Pakistani
websites have been hacked/defaced in retaliation of the Pakistani hacker’s
attack on Kerala Govt’s website.
They posted this on their Facebook
page: “!!Message to Script Kiddies of Pakistan ….Do not touch Indian
Websites !!! Now your 46 Pakistan government websites got crashed and 4
educational websites got defaced. This is a small payback for hacking
kerala.gov.in
Faisal 1337 go home kiddo, you are
F*ucked.”
They also shared the list of all the
websites which had been hacked by that time.
Later, as more hackers assembled
virtually, more Pakistani websites were defaced. Within 24 hours of the
incident, Indian hackers claimed that 250+ websites from Pakistan have been
hacked.
Although most of these hacked websites
have now been restored, few are still inaccessible even now.
Although this is not the first time
that Indian and Pakistani hackers have confronted face-on, very few actually
had an idea that the retaliation would be so quick and severe.
Both Indian and Pakistan Governments
have refused to issue any statement in this regard.
Last year, there was a similar hacking
war between Indian and Pakistani hackers, which took toll on several websites,
on both the sides. In May this year, Pakistani hackers allegedly hacked Gaana.com
database, and stole 12.5 million user accounts. Earlier this year, IT firm
FireEye claimed that Pakistani hackers have stolen sensitive Govt. information;
although no confirmation was received.
As we had shared earlier, we are
against such cyber-violence. Virtual world is without any borders, and
hate. Digital medium should be used for peace and harmony; not violence. We
hope that better sense prevail on hackers, and they stop such cyber-wars which
ultimately harm everyone.
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