A group of Pakistani hackershave reportedly hacked 7,070 Indian websites and released the list of them on Oct 5th. The cyber attacks were carried out were in correlation to surgical strikes carried out by India.
Each of these websites had the logo of the hacking group, ‘Pakistan Haxors Crew’ and the a Pakistani army song “Aae watanteraa eshara aagaya, aur sipahee ko puukarr aagaya…” (Oh nation, we’ve received your signal, every soldier has got his calling)…” playing in the background.
A Pakistani hacker, who goes by the screen name of Faisal 1337 also posted this message on one of the hacked websites: “You [m@#$%%$@##$%%%^] kill innocent people in kashmir and call your self defenders or your country You little b***** violate the cease fire on border and call it “Surgical Strikes” Now kiss the burn of Cyber War”.
Indian Cyber experts believe that the hackers were not experts.
“I’ve seen their post. They are not even proper hackers. They are what we call script kiddies, people who use existing computer scripts to hack into computers as they lack the expertise to write their own,” Mirza Faizan Asad, legal head, Global Cyber Security Response Team told Times of India.
However, Asad confirmed that cyber threat was real and emphasised that if rookie hackers could cause so much damage, what can the trained ones do?
Most of the websites attacked were not government ones, however several members of the hacker group have attacked banks, police and other state-run institutes before.
One of the worst attacks happened in 2013, when the Electronics Corporation of India Ltd (ECIL) website was hacked by the hacker ‘PhrozenMyst’, who allegedly stole sensitive data pertaining to the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc).
