New Delhi: India witnessed an estimated 4,90,000 cyberattacks originating from Pakistan during the T20 World Cup match between the countries’ men’s cricket teams on 24 October.
Sectrio, the cybersecurity division of Bengaluru-based telecom analytics firm Subex, wrote a blog post the day after India lost the match to Pakistan by 10 wickets in Dubai that while it is common for cyberattacks to increase when there is a geopolitical stressor, this “is the first time that such cyberattacks have been linked to a sporting event involving teams from the sub-continent”.
The Sectrio blog said for a six-day period before 24 October, its honey pot network in India registered a “steady” number of cyberattacks — about 3 lakh a day.
Sectrio monitors cyberattacks coming into India through ‘honey pots’ placed in India, which is a “a sacrificial computer system that’s intended to attract cyberattacks” so that researchers can study how the hackers operate.
“On 24 October, however, the number of attacks rose substantially to hit the 4,90,000 mark briefly, before dipping significantly towards midnight Indian Standard Time,” the blog said.
“Most of the cyberattacks were coming directly from IP addresses belonging to a certain country to the West of India (no prizes for guessing),” it added.
ThePrint has reliably learnt that the cyberattacks from Pakistan peaked around 9 pm India time on 24 October, about halfway through the match. Sectrio has traced these attacks back to around four state-backed...
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