By Admin 
The report is named “Road of Sindoor” and has been given to all important agencies including the State Police and Intelligence Department. It states that these attacks are being done not only from Pakistan, but also from Bangladesh, Middle East and Indonesia. Additional DGP Yashasvi Yadav of Maharashtra Cyber said that even though there has been a decrease in military hostels between India and Pakistan, cyber attacks have not stopped.
Which websites were targeted and how?
These attacks targeted places like Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Telecom Companies and Defense Nursing College (Jalandhar). In some cases the websites were defeated and some data theft was also revealed, which later appeared on the dark web.
Talking technically, technic like DDOS (Distributed Denial-of-Service), Malware, website defancement and GPS spoofing were used. Apart from this, Pakistan -associated cyber groups also tried to spread fake news and missinformation, such as an attack on India’s power grid, satellite jamming, attack on BrahMos missile storage.
Which hacker groups attacked?
The report has identified 7 big Pakistani or Pakistan-supported hacker groups:
APT 36 (Pakistan-based)
Pakistan Cyber Force
Team Insane Pk
Mysterious Bangladesh
Indo hacks sec
Cyber group hoax 1337
National Cyber Crew
These groups together launched around 1.5 million targeted cyber attacks against India. Maharashtra Cyber Cell has thwarted many of them and so far more than 5,000 fake posts and missinformation have been removed from social media.