When Pakistan sends a Trojan to India

Source: Shashank Shekhar, MidDay.

“Warmongers, rejoice. The war is on and how. Those who were relieved that there was no cross border firing during Independence Day week, might be surprised. India and Pakistan are fighting a silent war in cyberspace. In the last one week, hacker groups from the two countries have defaced thousands of websites, sent trojans (viruses) to government-operated ‘safe’ networks, and planted spyware in the bureaucracy’s email servers.

According to cyber experts, more than a thousand websites were hacked into and defaced on August 14 and 15, when Pakistan and India celebrated their Independence Days respectively. The day came as a nightmare for some website owners from the two nations. Pakistani hackers were the first to strike on August 14, when they defaced Indian sites. Indians returned fire the next day.”