****A screen shot of the home page of one of the hacked government websites, taken at 13:40, Nov 30.
KARACHI: The government started securing the attacked websites on Tuesday, shortly after a group of hackers calling themselves the ‘Indian Cyber Army’ gained root access to a main server hosting important Pakistani government websites.
In an email sent to media outlets earlier, the hackers’ group claimed to have gained root access to the server hosting the websites.
Meanwhile, a report said the government’s experts claimed the cyber attack had been successfully thwarted.
The group managed to hack at least 36 out of the 40 websites which are reportedly being hosted on the hacked server.
The hackers had inserted a page on the websites declaring that they had successfully rooted the server. The websites had not been entirely defaced.
The hacking attempt appears to be associated with the Mumbai attacks.
Details pertaining to the group behind the attack are not clear. Dawn.com is investigating the matter.
pakistani hackers have hacked Indian CBI’s website.
NEW DELHI: In a major embarrassment, the website of premier investigating agency CBI was hacked tonight by programmers identifying themselves as “Pakistani Cyber Army”.
The home page of the CBI website had a message from the ‘Pakistani Cyber Army’ warning the Indian Cyber Army not to attack their websites.
The hackers have made a mockery of the country’s cyber security by infiltrating into the CBI website, supposed to be one of the most secure websites. The CBI is connected to the command centre of world police organisation - Interpol - 24x7.
The message from the hackers also spoke about the filtering controls provided by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), a body which mans computer servers across the country.
Intelligence agencies have been often warning the government that proper cyber security was not being ensured in government offices and that no security audit was being carried out.
The Pakistani Cyber Army has also warned that it would carry out “mass defacement” of other websites.
Islamabad, Nov 4(ANI): A group of Pakistani hackers going by the name of ‘Predators PK’ have hacked 270 Indian websites, including that of the Central Bureau of Investigation.
“This Is A Result Of What You People Did on 26/11/2010,” Predators PK wrote on the hacked Indian websites, claiming that they did so in retaliation against the recent cyber attacks on Pakistani sites carried out by the Indian Cyber Army (ICA).
The hackers’ modus ope***** was similar to the ICA attack, with pages developed by the hackers being inserted onto Indian servers and sites being hacked to root level, The Express Tribune reported.
While the ICA had focused on hacking government websites, Predators PK focused on India’s Central Bureau of Investigation, college websites, NGOs, Indian](http://newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/193813#) and firms and religious sites among others, hacking them on Friday night.
While some of the sites appeared damaged, a majority of them were still functional, ](http://newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/193813#)the page inserted by the hackers.
Unlike the ICA attack which was cited as ‘revenge for 26/11’, the page inserted by Pakistani hackers did not suggest ideological motivations, but simply revenge.
The principal message by a hacker going by the handle, HEX786 read: “This is just a warning to all script kiddies Indians hackers. Stop being noobs and defacing Pakistani websites, don’t prove us to do something. Your security was good but we like breaking it!”
HEX786 also commented on the newspaper’s website, stating: “Before this govt web sites defacement Pakistani hacker hacked in 1200 Indians . We hacked BJP website, Nehor web site, 5 top Hackers forums. Indians Media Web sites all site on the Record in Google. We R (are) already fighting (the) cyber war the Indians started against Pakistan… it’s our gov (government’s) weakness they have hosted websites on cheap web .”
“All Pakistani nation should understand Pakistani hackers are a big power on the Internet. Now the Pakistani government should strictly protect their sites. We had told them the same day when the problem was created… Pakistani people should not worry because Pakistani Hackers (are) alive,” the hacker added.
HEX786 concluded the message on the hacked Indian websites with “Pakistan Zindabad”. (ANI)
