Indian hackers attack Pakistan websites to pay tribute to people killed in 9/11

by Pratibha Rawal on Monday, November 30, 2015 |

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.

Anonymous Hacks Thailand Police Server Against Internet Censorship

By Waqas on December 2, 2015 Email @hackread Anonymous Hacking News

Thailand police servers are the latest in the online breaches — This breach is a part of the campaign (#OpSingleGateway) launched by Anonymous against the Thai government.
The server breach allowed Anonymous to leak private information regarding Thai officers and some evidence records.
#OpSingleGateway is a campaign launched by Anonymous activists to protest and attract the attention of bot the nation and international media against government’s internet censorship plans.
The Thai government has been trying to channel all the internet connections through a single gateway. Recent proposals to have asked the government to hand the gateway server to CAT (State-sponsored ISP).
What Anonymous feels is that the idea of single internet gateway might be something similar to China’s great firewall which has caused lots of privacy issues to the Chinese people.
But, it’s not only the Anonymous that is against the government but also the government’s detractors who believe by single internet gateway, the government would be in control of country’s entire internet traffic.
In October, Anonymous with the help of F5CyberArmy launched DDoS attacks against government sites and by the end of the month hacktivist group had launched their second attack but this time on CAT telecom which revealed the gateway internet access plan of the government.

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Hackers Behind ProtonMail Attacks Now Targeting Greek Banks for Bitcoins

By Pushpa Mishra on December 2, 2015 Email @hackread Cyber Attacks Cyber Crime Security

A hacking group (Armada Collective) which was previously held responsible for launching DDoS attacks on ProtonMail is back and this time targeting Greek banks and using the old DDoS-for-Bitcoin extortion scheme.
In the ProtonMail case, the company paid ransom to the group but Greek banks contacted law enforcement authorities instead.
The attacks started on 26th November and continued for the remaining week in which three unnamed banks were targeted. The cyber criminals demanded a ransom of 20,000 Bitcoins which currently values $7,210,000, according to the Kathimereini Greek Newspaper.
The Managing director at Imperial Media (Yanni Koutsomitis) said the authorities in Greek contacted an FBI investigation specialist to help them in investigating the hacking group. However, FBI was caught telling victims of cyber attacks to pay ransom in such cases.

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