Attack said to be in retaliation to an Indian cyber army attacking Pakistani ministry websites on November 26.
A day after the country’s premier investigation agency CBI faced a cyber attack on its official website, the agency on Saturday registered a case against unknown persons for hacking and defacement who identified themselves as ‘Pakistani cyber army’.
The CBI website, supposed to be one of the most secure websites, is connected to the command centre of world police organization, Interpol, 24x7.
The message from the hackers also spoke about the filtering controls provided by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), a body which controls official computer servers across the country.
A case under various sections of the Information Technology Act was registered and efforts were underway to restore the website for public interface at the earliest, a CBI spokesperson said in a statement. The website remained offline at the time of going to print.
“It has come to the notice of the CBI that its official website was unauthorisedly accessed and defaced in the intervening night of December 3 and 4,” the spokesperson said.
“A case has been registered in this connection in the cyber crime cell of the CBI and efforts are underway to restore the website with the help of National Informatics Centre and the CBI cyber security experts,” the statement added.
The home page of the CBI had a message from the ‘Pakistani Cyber Army’ warning the ‘Indian cyber army’ that their websites should not be attacked.
A Pakistani daily, The Express Tribune carried an article with the headline, ‘Pakistani hackers take revenge’. The group of Pakistani internet hackers has waged a cyber war on Indian sites, claiming to have infected over 200 of them and said the act was a revenge for a similar attack on Pakistani websites by a self-proclaimed “Indian cyber army”, the newspaper said.
The group, describing itself as “Predators PK”, said it hacked the Indian sites in retaliation to the November 26 cyber attack carried out by the Indian cyber army (ICA), according to a report published in The Express Tribune. Among the 36 websites hacked by the ICA on November 26 this year, were the websites of Pakistan Navy, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), the ministry of foreign affairs, education and finance as well as Islamic organisations.
In retaliation, Predators PK has targeted websites of CBI, colleges, NGOs, Indian companies and religious organisations among others, the daily said and published the list of hacked websites circulated by Predators PK.
The modus operandi was similar to the ICA attack, with pages developed by the hackers being inserted onto Indian servers and sites being hacked to root level.
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