Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Cyber Headquarters has issued an advisor for all print and television media in the state for direct security audits of their portal after intelligence input that can be done by Pakistani cyber hackers can try to lower their website to flash flags National Pakistani on August 15.
This was done to avenge the alleged efforts made by Indian cyber hackers in 2015, 2017 and 2020, say sources in intelligence agencies.
This is a sustainable defacement war in cyber space from both countries by a hacking group for more than a decade, they said.
“We have issued advisors who request home media to secure their portals to all possible hacking efforts.
They have been asked to build a physical firewall on their network with secure access.
They are also recommended to reset their passwords,” Cyber State Chief Yogesh Chaudhary told Tii.
On August 14, 2015 a group called ‘Hell Shield Hackers’, has claimed to have dropped around 100 Pakistani business websites as “tribute to Indian Jawan”.
They claim it is a return on Pakistani hackers who have hacked many Indian sites (to mark Pakistani independence day on August 14).
Two years later on the same day, a group of Indian cyber hackers allegedly lowered more than 500 Pakistani websites, including several major government sites and had posted pro-India content while damaging the website, said sources in intelligence agents.
Once again in 2020, more than 80 Pakistani websites were hacked and Tricolor India passed them.
They continue to hack one website after another while conveying the message of India’s pride.
Some of the main Pakistan news channels have claimed that their channels are hacked.
Hackers have attacked TV, after channels that have broadcast the Indian flag along with messages that read ‘Happy Independence Day’, according to the official release by one of the leading Pakistan news channels in 2020.
“Indian flags and the text ‘Happy Independence Day’ appeared in advertisements which runs on the screen left for some time and then disappears, a declared release.
Many intelligence officers refer to this cyber war as a ‘hacking’ that claims that this cyberattack is driven by the ideology intended to take over the government’s website or media and post Message defacing on them to embarrass rival targets.
Madhya Pradesh Cyber Cops warns media with intelligence of Pakistan ‘hackers’
