Anonymous Targets Indian ISPs

-

The Internet hacker group, Anonymous, is targeting censorship in India.  Anonymous Operation India announced on their webpage that they have taken down the Indian government-run telecommunications provider Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) website by using a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.  The attack occurred Wednesday, and attempts to log on to MTNL resulted in error messages claiming the URL couldn’t be retrieved.  The site was down for at least six hours.  MNTL company officials deny any knowledge of the occurrence. This attack was a precursor to the group’s larger protest.

The Internet Service Providers Association of India faced similar DDoS attacks after following court orders to block file-sharing websites like Pirate Bay.  Following suit with MNTL, the association’s president denied such an attack ever occurred.

A March court order directed at ISPs intended to prevent a newly released movie from being pirated and offered online, and to put a stop to privacy and copyright violations.  Internet Service Providers have interpreted the order in different ways, some choosing to block all file-sharing websites, not just offending URLs.  Anonymous Operation India posted on their website, “We are against Internet Cencorship (sic.). Instead of blocking few URLs the ISP blocked the whole domain of various file sharing websites. The HC Madras, DoT didn’t issue any list of websites to be blocked still ISP supported internet censorship.”

This court action has spurred Anonymous to call for a non-violent protest, named “Operation India,” across several Indian cities beginning on June 9 against the censorship of the Internet.  Anonymous has encouraged participants in the protest to download and print a cut-out of a Guy Fawkes mask, which refers to the Occupy Wall Street protests. Furthermore, protesters are informed to dress in all black with their masks and target public places to achieve maximum impact.

 The group has already made a number of attacks on Indian websites ranging from government agencies, political parties, corporate groups, and private ISPs, any of which they feel supports the ban of file-sharing. 
Report by :- WireLayer Official 


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

AntiCloud Trojan Reverse Engineering Analysis

-
Image
Introduction In this paper we are going to talk about the Anticloud Trojan, also know as the  TrojanDropper:Win32/Bohu.A and  B  variant. This malware originated in China and was designed to target the Cloud-Based Technology of major Chinese AntiVirus Vendors. For this reason, Bohu has also been called  AntiCloud Trojan . This is the first malware to specifically target cloud based technologies and will likely set a trend. As more corporations and governments move applications and services into the cloud, it will become an increasingly important target for malware developers. We can expect sophisticated malware that attacks clients and embeds itself into cloud-based apps, potentially without the user being able to determine that the cloud-based service is compromised. This trojan presents some interesting features, such as: Hash Check Evasion. Packet Interception via NDIS Filter. Cloud-Servers Access Lock via SPI network filter in order to Bypass antivirus Detection. So
Read more

SQL Injection: The Equal Opportunity Vulnerability

-
Image
Introduction In the  first installment of this series , we discussed application security within the Software Development Process by demystifying the adoption of security controls within the development organization. We also took a deeper dive into identifying potential vulnerabilities based on threats to attack surfaces exposed to the application, a process known as threat modeling. In this installment, we are going to take a technical dive into specific vulnerabilities that can be used to compromise the attack surfaces and discuss what is arguably one of the most prevalent attacks to applications and inflicts the most exposure of sensitive data: SQL Injection. Injection attacks attempt to infiltrate an application by injecting malicious content into the application through available input channels. Input channels can be in the form of form fields, uploads, 3 rd  party API, data access channels, configuration files, input files: essentially, any point at which the application r
Read more

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

-
Image
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL): How It Works What Happens When a Browser Encounters SSL > A browser attempts to connect to a website secured with SSL. > The browser requests that the web server identify itself. > The server sends the browser a copy of its SSL Certificate. > The browser checks whether it trusts the SSL Certificate. If so, it sends a    message to the server. > The server sends back a digitally signed acknowledgement to start an SSL encrypted session. > Encrypted data is shared between the browser and the server. Encryption Protects Data During Transmission Web servers and web browsers rely on the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol to help users protect their data during transfer by create a uniquely encrypted channel for private communications over the public Internet. Each SSL Certificate consists of a key pair as well as verified identification information. When a web browser (or client) points to a secured website, th
Read more