In order to mark the fourth anniversary of the Mumbai terror
attack famous as 9/11, which took place on 26 November, 2008, two Indian
hacking groups on Thursday targeted more than 130 governmental and
non-governmental websites of Pakistan.
After the cyber-attack, it seems the enmity between Pakistan
and India has gone up to the next level. The cyber-attack was not the new case
for both of the countries.
A hacker group called Mallu Cyber Soldiers had attacked many
Pakistani websites, including official government portals such as
pakistan.gov.pk, president.gov.pk and cabinet.gov.pk, as a response to the
attack on the Kerala government website on 27 September.
During that attack, those Pakistani hackers had displayed a
message, praising Pakistan, along with a picture of a burning Indian National
Flag.
A message like "Struck By Faisal 1337. Official Website
Government of Kerala Hacked! Pakistan Zindabad. We Are Team Pak Cyber Attacker.
Security is just an illusion", was posted in the website.
Now, the hacking groups were identified as Indian Black Hats
(IBH) and Kerala Cyber Warriors (KCW). Both of them said to have attacked the
websites in order to pay tribute to the dead people during the Mumbai attack.
"It is cyber pay back for 26/11 Mumbai attack against
Pakistan," a hacker of Kerala Cyber Warriors team told IBTimes India.
It just took a day for us to hack all these 125 sites with the background song
"Oru Yathramozhiyode from Mohanlal's Kurukshetra movie. We have access to
many Pakistan servers, so the defacing was easy."
On the same day, another hacking group IBH attacked almost
10 Pakistani websites and other domains.
"Indian Black Hats is a team with members from all over
India and it is in cyber space from 2011 with the name Indian Cyber Devils. Now
this year the name was changed to the recent one. We have not harmed these
websites, but just uploaded a file as a pay back for 26/11 attacks," one
hacker of IBH told IBTimes India.
