Lately, Pakistani attackers compromised 10 websites of India that included Army Institute of Management and Technology, National Aeronautics, Army Institute of Management, Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, and the Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences. The attacker group, Pakistan Haxor Crew, stated the action was to take revenge of the vandalism of the Pakistan Railways site by an hacker of India and to display unity with people of Kashmir.
In 2016, reports came out in Australia that the whole design strategies that unveil the ability of Scorpene submarine fleet of India were exposed. The design plans were exposed actually from DCNS, the French manufacturer, which is the developer of the network. As per reports, over 22,000 documents of plans had been exposed. An IIT Kanpur survey shared with Committee on Finance of Parliament this year claimed that assaults from the “Equation group,” which as per a WikiLeaks study was a clandestine NSA and CIA program, infected military and telecom research and sectors of India.
The government is lastly responding to the danger with a plan to make a fresh tri-service organization for cyber conflict. The Defence Cyber Agency will operate in association with the National Cyber Security Advisor. It will have over 1,000 specialists who will be dispersed into a number of formations of the Navy, Army, and IAF. As per reports, the latest Defence Cyber Agency will have both defensive and offensive ability. The Defence Cyber Agency is witnessed as a forerunner of a cyber command. Post reports that Russia interfered in the U.S. elections by creating propaganda on the Internet and hacking machines and the latest ransomware and other cyber assaults being recognized in North Korea, cyber conflict is receiving significance.
Kiren Rijiju, Minister of State for Home, last month admitted that there was a major gap in capacity and capability of India when it came to cyber combat and it was very important to narrow down this gap to dishearten cyber assaulters. China has already designed sturdy cyber conflict capacity. The next war might well have to be battled on the Internet where vital infrastructure and networks of the country might be on goal that will make bigger disturbance than actual wars.