Indians hacking into Pakistani computers with promises of defense secrets

[Ayush]

good news..

 

[Amaa'n]

i don;t know what kind of people this article is addressing to because if i can understand this all correctly that the article refers to a keylogging software which when bind to a file can be sent off to anyone, there are many paid softwares available in the market so it is no brainer. as far as premier intelligence agency of pakistan is concerned than they are not that behind from the world, talking about military or civil agencies than that is whole different story, however MI is stepping up its game too in the recent times.

 

[Jango]

The ISI regularly recruits out of NUST ,FAST and other universities..
it now regularly identifies people it knows to have hacking as a hobby. You get a Suzuki Mehran at your university, with guys in white shalwar kameez.. and you go for a ride. If you are in.. then you are in and nobody knows..

Haha...I know a guy who went through a similar experience and he is shyte scared till now...he has gotten tooooo paranoid!!! Every other VIGO he thinks is of ISI!!! Although most are, but with the new fake number plates they have made it less obvious!

He refused in the end...

 

[474474]

They have USB and a CD drive. But yes in many cases the networking capability is disabled though hardware.

Isnt making your own special type of flash storage that does not conform to any international standards sound safer?

 

[Jango]

Isnt making your own special type of flash storage that does not conform to any international standards sound safer?

Do we have that capability?

This would also mean changing the whole system for the Army or for atleast the sensitive agencies and departments.

P.S: I ain't no computer guy.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Do we have that capability?

This would also mean changing the whole system for the Army or for atleast the sensitive agencies and departments.

P.S: I ain't no computer guy.

What about tht damn Army network thing in offices?

Not a computer guy myself..

 

[Marshmallow]

dis is a bit scary...........

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

dis is a bit scary...........

Lol... thts so cute ....

 

[notorious_eagle]

Nobody has similar security.. the levels of paranoia that exist in the Pakistani establishment would put someone suffering from severe paranoid schizophrenia to shame. Here it is on a collective level all the way from top to bottom.

If i am correct, this paranoia started after the exercise held between PAF and USAF in 1978. The USAF brought their newly minted E-2's which jammed the entire communication network of PAF. All phones at the bases connected through the gridlines started ringing, even if you picked up the phone they were still ringing. From what i have heard; after this incident PA, PAF and PN completely revamped their communication system and built one through a separate grid. Even if an Indian nuclear strike takes out GHQ, PA's communication lines will still be intact.

 

[Markus]

Pakistan hit hard by targeted cyber attack out of India​

NEW YORK



A new campaign by a family of information-stealing malware, which appears to originate out ofIndia, has been hittingPakistanhard over the last few months, according to American researchers.

Citing researchers at Eset, Dark Reading, a comprehensive news and information portal that focuses on IT security, said unlike other known cyber-espionage campaigns, this one appears oddly rudimentary in that it uses publicly available tools and basic obfuscation methods, and doesn’t encrypt its command-and-control communications.

“String obfuscation using simple rotation (a shift cipher), no cryptography used in network communication, persistence achieved through the startup menu and use of existing, publicly-available tools to gather information on infected systems shows that the attackers did not go to great lengths to cover their tracks, wrote Jean-Ian Boutin, a malware researcher with Eset.

“On the other hand, maybe they see no need to implement stealthier techniques because the simple ways still work.”

The malware campaign is at least two years old and is spread via phishing emails with rigged Word and PDF files, according to Eset. It steals sensitive information via keyloggers, screenshots, and uploading stolen documents, unencrypted.

“The decision not to use encryption is puzzling considering that adding basic encryption would be easy and provide additional stealth to the operation,” Boutin says.

The attack uses a code-signing certificate issued in 2011 to aNew Delhi, India-based Technical and Commercial Consulting Pvt. Ltd., and is designed to ensure the malware binaries could spread within the victim organisation.

The certificate had been revoked in late March 2012, but was still in use, Dark Reading said. Eset contacted VeriSign, which revoked the cert. Eset found more than 70 binary files signed with the malicious certificate.

Among the attachments was one that appears to be about Indian military secrets, according to Dark Reading. “We do not have precise information as to which individuals or organizations were really specifically targeted by these files, but based on our investigations, it is our assumption that people and institutions in Pakistan were targeted,” Boutin says.

Nearly 80 per cent of the infections are in Pakistan, according to Eset. One version of the attack exploits a known and patched Microsoft Office flaw, CVE-2012-0158. The malware executes once the victim opens a malicious Word attachment; the other method used in the attack uses PE files that appear to be Word or PDF attachments.

The attackers used NirSoft’s WebPassView and Mail PassView tools for recovering passwords in email clients and browser stores; the tools were signed by the malicious cert.

Pakistan hit hard by targeted cyber attack out of India

 

[Anony]

You watch too my India Tv and others bullsh!t man

Nope. I just replied to @lovelcon . He wanted to use nuke for hacking.

 

[EagleEyes]

Indians do this worldwide its not just targeted to Pakistan.

 

[tvsram1992]

because they are sending .pdf files , we can suspect a few chini pdf hackers

 

[Markus]

Indians do this worldwide its not just targeted to Pakistan.

As per article, 80% hit are Pakistanis.

 

[Roybot]

Already posted.

http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-affairs/252812-indians-hacking-into-pakistani-computers-promises-defense-secrets.html