Skirmishes across the border between India and Pakistan seem to have had an impact on the cyber world too, with Pakistani hackers attacking and defacing a number of Indian government websites in the past two days.
Only last week, an Indian hacker, who uses the handle “Bl@ck Dr@gon,” reportedly defaced the website of the Pakistan People’s Party in protest against the controversial statements of its leader, Bilawal Bhutto, on Kashmir. The Pakistani hackers described him as a “script kiddie.”
An alliance going by the name of “Pak Cyber Pyrates” managed to deface a large number of websites of the Karnataka government and post anti-India statements. The hackers, however, did not deface the homepages, but introduced a page containing their message.
The message talks of Pakistan taking over Kashmir and warns Indian hackers not to “touch Pakistani cyberspace… ”