Indian agencies start countering Pak’s cyber warfare - The Sunday Guardian Live
New Delhi: Indian agencies, including the specific wing of Military Intelligence (MI), which, until now, in a majority of cases of cyber information warfare attack launched by ISI-ISPR backed actors, were caught unprepared, are now identifying such covert exercises before they are able to spread confusion and generate fake news-based reactions in the Indian domestic cyber realm.
Two relevant reports, including one that was prepared by an analyst with MI, seen by
The Sunday Guardian, shows how Indian officials were able to identify and isolate Twitter handles that became active during the recent “civil war” in Pakistan in the wake of the violence unleashed by political party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP).
These Twitter handles took “control” of organic trending hashtags like “#civilwarinpakistan” that common Pakistani citizens were using on Twitter to criticise the Imran Khan government over its handling of TLP and instead tried to turn it into a case of information warfare that was being carried out by Indian agencies to discredit Khan domestically and Pakistan globally.
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However, with Indian agencies exposing the modus operandi of these GHQ, Rawalpindi-supported state actors rapidly, multiple times in the last few months and thereby making them impotent, analysts tracking the environment believe that new methods of mounting cyberwarfare against Indian interest are already being devised upon.
‘The intention was to give the message to relevant Western intelligence agencies that Indian agencies were playing dirty in Pakistan and TLP was working
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