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A suspected Pakistan-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as Transparent Tribe has been linked to an ongoing cyber espionage campaign targeting Indian and Pakistani Android users with a backdoor called CapraRAT. “Transparent Tribe distributed the Android CapraRAT backdoor via trojanized secure messaging and calling apps branded as MeetsApp and MeetUp,” ESET said in a […]
A spear-phishing campaign targeting Indian government entities aims to deploy an updated version of a backdoor called ReverseRAT. Cybersecurity firm ThreatMon attributed the activity to a threat actor tracked as SideCopy. SideCopy is a threat group of Pakistani origin that shares overlaps with another actor called Transparent Tribe. It is so named for mimicking the […]
Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, announced Tuesday that it took action against four separate malicious cyber groups from Pakistan and Syria who were found targeting people in Afghanistan, as well as journalists, humanitarian organizations, and anti-regime military forces in the West Asian country. The Pakistani threat actor, dubbed SideCopy, is said to have […]
Cybercriminals with suspected ties to Pakistan continue to rely on social engineering as a crucial component of its operations as part of an evolving espionage campaign against Indian targets, according to new research. The attacks have been linked to a group called Transparent Tribe, also known as Operation C-Major, APT36, and Mythic Leopard, which has […]
A recent report by Hindustan Times stated that hackers from Pakistan attacked over 90 websites of the Indian Government. The recent escalations in tensions between the neighbors led to a surge in attacks in cyberspace, targeting key infrastructures. The death of 40 CRPF personnel in a recent terror strike by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad led to India […]
Short Bytes: The government of India has warned its six ministries regarding a probable Pakistani hacking attack to retrieve sensitive information from the computers in various organizations. On Friday, the Indian home ministry issued an advisory to six ministries regarding a possible hacking attack from Pakistani intelligence agencies. This hacking attack may target the communication networks of […]
A group of Pakistani hackers going with the handle of MadLeets have hacked and defaced a Pakistani based online telecom and IT news website ProPakistani.com. The site was left with a deface page along with a message that explains reason for hacking ProPakistani.com was alleged ignoring of news sent by MadLeets to be posted on the […]
Two Pakistani hackers going with the handle of Xploiter and Dr.Freak from PakBugs hacking group have hacked and defaced the official website of Tameer Microfinance Bank (TMFB) which is Pakistan’s Largest and the first private commercial Microfinance bank. Hackers left their deface page along with a message on the hacked website which shows the reason for attacking bank site […]
A well known Pakistani hacker Sizzling Soul from Pak Cyber Eaglez is back in news with his latest attack in which 473 British based websites have been hacked and defaced few hours ago. Sizzling Soul contacted me via email about his latest attack and explained that sites were defaced against alleged British Police brutality and racism with […]
A Pakistani hacker going with the handle of MadcodE Haxor has hacked and defaced the official website of Pakistan based famous entertainment TV channel known as HUMTV (www.hum.tv). The site was hacked few moments ago and left with a deface page along with a message, explaining why the site was hacked. The message shows that site […]
An independent security researcher from Pakistan, going with the name of Danish Tariq has claimed to found cross site scripting vulnerability (XSS) on the websites of IndiaTimes and Ask.com. Indiatimes (www.indiatimes.com) is the Internet subsidiary of The Times of India Group, under which, some of the largest websites in India – The Times of India, The […]
Hackers from Pak Cyber Eaglez (PCE) have came up with their new hack in which total 4 Nigerian government ministry websites have been hacked and defaced. The hacked sites include country’s Ministry of Foreign of Affairs, National Malaria Control Program, Ministry of National Planning Commission and website of National Research Institute for Chemical Technology. Hackers left their […]
A Pakistani hacker going with the handle of Pakthtun72 from Pak Cyber Eaglez has hacked and defaced 187 websites along with two Egyptian websites, one from Government’s General Authority for Supply Commodities (gasc.gov.eg) and second from an Egyptian university (elmaref.edu.eg). The hacker, who contacted me via email, explained that reason for hacking these sites was to […]
The official website of Bahria Town (www.bahriatown.com), Pakistan’s largest real-estate developers and private housing society in Asia has been hacked and defaced by hackers calling themselves Inqalabi hackers that means revolutionary hackers. The hackers left a deface page along with a message on hacked Bahria Town website explaining who are they and why the site was attacked. The […]
A Pakistani based Pak Cyber Eaglez group has hacked a 150+ UK based websites including the website of an online Christian entertainment channel broadcast from the UK. The hackers contacted me via email explained that it was a collective attack, the reason for attacking UK based sites was to show them the power of Pakistan and […]
Two Pakistani hackers going with the handles of Um3r-H & Mr Max have hacked and defaced 200 Indian websites a while ago. The hackers who call themselves Voice Of Black Hat Hackers left their deface page along with a note and greetings for their fellow hackers. According to the message: [#]root@Um3r-H: Your system GoT 0wn3d By Um3r-H ! […]
In past I’ve been writing on how Pakistani websites have been terribly vulnerable to hackers, proving that fact the official website of Pakistan telecommunication limited was hacked again for the second time. In past the PTCL was hacked by a Pakistani hacker CyberHax0rs, this time its the same CyberHax0rs to hack the website for second time. However, no damage was done […]
While scrolling Zone-h about Indo-Pak cyber war, I got hold of latest hack attacks conducted by famous Indian hacking group Indishell on 7th December 2012. The group has hacked 250 Pakistani government websites including the sites of some sensitive and high profile government institutions. You will find the complete list of those sites later in […]
It seems that this is time for another Cyber war between Pakistani and Bangladeshi hackers as the official website of Pakistan’s Punjab Assembly (http://www.pap.gov.pk) was deface on Sunday by hackers from Bangladesh. The hacker left a message on the hacked websites and calling it a hack of retaliation because Pakistani hackers hacked Bangladesh websites few days ago. The […]
Indian government at the end of the year 2012 has break out a shocking news which says approximately 294 websites were hacked at the beginning of 2012. The sites belong to various level of ministries within the Indian government setup. The news broke by a government official who belonged to communication department in these words: […]
In a report by Rappler, the official website of Philippine Embassy in Tel Aviv (Israel) was hacked by hacker who goes by the handle of RCP ON 15th November for #OpIsrael. The website was defaced the second day of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, leaving the Hamas leader dead. The hacker left a deface page that was displaying a boy holding […]