India and Pakistan are fighting a silent war in cyberspace. In the last couple of months, hacker groups from the two countries have defaced each other's websites, sent trojans (viruses) to government-operated 'safe' networks, and planted spyware in the bureaucracy's email servers. To top it all, they have been constantly seeking assistance from neutral global groups to join their respective "team".
According to sources within the hacking community, conflict on the Indo-Pak cyber front flared up when the website of Eastern Railway was hacked on December 24 by a Pakistani group. That was the time around which the India-Pakistan war rhetoric was reaching a crescendo. "Cyber war has been declared on Indian cyberspace by Whackerz- Pakistan," a note posted on the hacked page of the railway website read. The group claimed that the site was hacked in response to the alleged violation of Pakistani airspace by the Indian Air Force.
This hacking incident followed a similar defacement of the website of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Andhra Pradesh police, which had been compromised by Pakistani hackers soon after the 26/11 strikes.
"The hackers removed the "most wanted" list from the CID website and replaced it with messages threatening us -- their Indian cyber rivals. The website in question - www.cidap.gov.in-- is still down, supposedly closed for maintenance," a source in the Indian hacking community told DNA.
Soon after the attacks, an Indian group -- Guards of Hindustan -- hacked into the website of the Oil and Gas Regularity Authority of Pakistan and posted their logo and the Indian national emblem on it. In retaliation, the Pakistan Cyber Army, hacked the websites of the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, the Centre for Transportation Research and Management, the Army's Kendriya Vidyalaya of Ratlam and the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).
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