Pak hackers putting up lethal virus programmes on the popular Pakistani websites which are accessed by a large number of Indians; expert says regular anti-virus software does not work
Pak hackers putting up lethal virus programmes on the popular Pakistani websites which are accessed by a large number of Indians; expert says regular anti-virus software does not work
GUNS may not be blazing on the border, but the hits are getting intense, in the virtual world at least.
There is nothing new in the fact that Indian websites both government and popular are the favourite targets of Pakistani hackers. But this time they are putting up lethal virus programmes on the popular Pakistani websites which are accessed by a large number of Indians too.
"The attacks increased manifold in the month of November 2008. A similar spurt in such cases was reported after the Parliament attack case in 2002 when India mobilised its defence forces," said a Home Ministry official, requesting anonymity.
The Intelligence agencies have also expressed concerns over the rogue Pakistani websites and hackers.
MiD DAY had recently reported that a group called Pakistan Cyber Army (PCA) hacked some critical Indian websites, including state-owned energy major Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Indian Railways and Kendriya Vidyalaya.
"The virus, which is being spread through popular Bollywood songs and movies websites, multiplies in a very short time and infects a large number of computers," the official added.
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Cyber crime experts say that the Pakistani hackers are using a wider computer network to hit the Indian economy. "They are specially targeting corporate and government computer networks to siphon off important data. It's just like sabotaging the economy by attacking individual units or companies," said Rajat Khare from Appin security.
Sunny Vaghela, a noted cyber crime expert, said, "There are over 12 lakhs Indian users who frequently access Pakistani websites for downloading songs and movies. Moreover, other Pakistani websites like ansari.music and songs420 have embedded pop ups which are used to put up worms in the users' computer."
He added that lethal programmes like Botnet and Zoombe are being used to attack our cyber space. "songs.pk is one of those popular Pakistani websites which are laden with some of these deadly virus," he said.
Vaghela pointed out that regular anti-virus softwares don't work against such programmes as these are comparatively new.
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