A cyberattack group from Indonesia has been allegedly targeting 12,000 government websites in India, according to a cybersecurity alert issued by the Centre. The alert also said that the hacktivist group had released a list of government websites that it claims to be targeting, which included state and Central government websites.
The alert, accessed by Moneycontrol, was issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs’ Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) on Thursday.
“It has been reported that websites of state and central government are potentially being targeted,” the alert said while urging concerned government officials to take preventive measures.
Last year, a massive ransomware attack crippled the systems of All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) rendering its centralised records inaccessible, apart from other hospital services.
Overall, the Indian government recorded 19 ransomware attacks against various government organisations in 2022, nearly three times the number recorded the previous year.
The I4C alert said that an Indonesian “hacktivist” group was launching denial of service (DoS) and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. DDoS attacks refer to the intentional paralysing of a computer network by flooding it with data sent simultaneously from many individual computers.
The alert also said that the hacktivist group had released a list of government websites that it claims to be targeting, which included state and Central government websites.
Source: Moneycontrol.com