Looks like India did not had any real interest in spying on US and China relations. A storm was raised after a self-claimed India hacker group called “Lord of Dharmaraja”, posted documents showing that India Govt., took help of mobile companies like RIM, Nokia, Apple for back door access to spy on US-China relations, in return for permission to operate in Indian market.
After the memo (fake) was made public, triggering a US investigation into a possible cyber attack by Indian Military spy agency. The investigating community found that memo was fake, but they found out that serious security breaches did take place.
Military and cyber-security experts in India say the hackers may have created the purported military intelligence memo simply to draw attention to their work, or to taint relations between close allies India and the United States.
"There is some malicious intent, but to try and work out who has done it, given the current nature of the Internet, is an exercise in futility," said Cherian Samuel, a specialist on cyber-security and Indo-U.S. relations at India's Defense Ministry-funded Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses.
Speculation has focused on India's neighbours, arch-rival Pakistan and China, both of which are active in cyber-operations.
"It's also possible that Pakistan's hackers have done it, or China's hackers," said Mukesh Saini, an expert on cyber-security who served on the secretariat of India's national Security Council, an intelligence agency, until 2006.
But if that were the case, he said, the attackers could be acting without state sponsorship.
Source: Reuters
After the memo (fake) was made public, triggering a US investigation into a possible cyber attack by Indian Military spy agency. The investigating community found that memo was fake, but they found out that serious security breaches did take place.
Military and cyber-security experts in India say the hackers may have created the purported military intelligence memo simply to draw attention to their work, or to taint relations between close allies India and the United States.
"There is some malicious intent, but to try and work out who has done it, given the current nature of the Internet, is an exercise in futility," said Cherian Samuel, a specialist on cyber-security and Indo-U.S. relations at India's Defense Ministry-funded Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses.
Speculation has focused on India's neighbours, arch-rival Pakistan and China, both of which are active in cyber-operations.
"It's also possible that Pakistan's hackers have done it, or China's hackers," said Mukesh Saini, an expert on cyber-security who served on the secretariat of India's national Security Council, an intelligence agency, until 2006.
But if that were the case, he said, the attackers could be acting without state sponsorship.
Source: Reuters
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