CERT Pakistan

Autotrader.co.uk experienced Distributed Denial of Service attacks from IP’s originating from multiple countries. The message on the Autotrader blog reads:

“Since midday on Monday 18th April, the Autotrader.co.uk website has been subject to a malicious third-party attack which has prevented normal operational services from being delivered. Anyone visiting the site during this attack would have found that Autotrader.co.uk was either intermittently unavailable or extremely slow.

The technical support team is working around the clock to restore services and minimise the impact of similar attacks in the future. Some visitors may still experience difficulty accessing the site today while we resolve the remaining problems.

However, it is important to note that we have no evidence to suggest that any customer data has been lost as a result of the attack and there are no known risks to consumers visiting the site during this time.

Apologies for any inconvenience caused, we’d like to reassure all our customers that we are working very hard to resolve this.”

CERT Pakistan assisted Autotrader in blocking bots from Pakistan. We are also investigating the origin of bots.

Source: www.tribune.com.pk

A war between Indian and Pakistani cyber hackers has erupted. Both sides are hacking each other’s websites. These attacks began with an Indian Cyber Army (ICA) attack — cited as ‘revenge for the 26/11 attack — on Pakistani government websites.

A group of Pakistani hackers, identifying themselves as the Pakistan Cyber Army (PCA), retaliated not out of  any ideological motivation but simply revenge.

The two sides have been retaliating since then, with dangerous tit-for-tat attacks. Sensitive websites, including government owned ones, on both sides of the cyber war have already been put out of commission. And the ongoing cyber war threatens to disable even more.

Important casualties of this cyber war include the website of the Indian Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) and the Pakistan’s Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) and the website of the Jadavpur University Department of Economics.

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Source: Reuters

A group calling itself the “Pakistani Cyber Army” has hacked into the website of India’s federal crime investigation bureau and left a warning message to Indian hackers, local media said Saturday.

The website of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was penetrated as nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan have made efforts to repair relations and build trust that evaporated after the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

The website has remained shut for the day after the action against it Friday night. The group has warned it would carry out the “mass defacement” of Indian websites, according to the Press Trust of India.

“CBI registered a case for the defacement of its website,” the agency said Saturday. “It has come to the notice of CBI that its official website was unauthorisedly accessed and defaced. A case has been registered in this connection.”

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Source: Dawn.com

The government started securing the attacked websites on Tuesday, shortly after a group of hackers calling themselves the ‘Indian Cyber Army’ gained root access to a main server hosting important Pakistani government websites.

In an email sent to media outlets earlier, the hackers’ group claimed to have gained root access to the server hosting the websites.

Meanwhile, a report said the government’s experts claimed the cyber attack had been successfully thwarted.

The group managed to hack at least 36 out of the 40 websites which are reportedly being hosted on the hacked server.

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