Government Accounts Hacked Cyber Attack on Pakistani Air Force

Analysts at the network safety company Cy-lance believe that a wide range of attacks come from countries in the Middle East.The flag flies in half the Supreme Court of Karachi, Pakistan. According to a private security company, hackers recently hacked the Pakistani government network this year.

According to the latest news from a private security firm, Pakistan Air Force and other members of its government have infiltrated internet hackers funded by foreign governments this year. What they called a "white company" sank various elements of the Pakistani army and intelligence networks to steal data and publicly harass the government, the California-based Irvine said. Cy-lance first identified the invasion in 2018 and said that hackers may still pose a threat to the Pakistani government and other countries in the region.

The disclosure includes nuclear states such as Pakistan, and Pakistan's control of its arsenal has become a source of concern for Western leaders."This is not only a major country in South Asia but also a global issue," said Kevin Levey, head of intelligence at threats from Cy-lance, who said Pakistan was a key player in US-led terrorist organizations such as the Taliban and AL-Qaeda. And the Haqqani network. "According to our rule, targeting the army is also particularly alarming." The company spokesman declined to say which state it believed was supporting the attack but said it could be a state in the Middle East and was trying to stimulate America's capabilities in cyberspace. He said he believed the culprit was not the United States, Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, India, Israel, Britain, Canada, Australia or New Zealand - the most powerful player in the world. Cy-lance also did not disclose any information on hackers.

Cy-lance and other private security companies have already helped identify and promote known piracy organizations operating in an area rarely discussed voluntarily by the government. In 2014, Ceylon's revealed news about Iran's actions, allegedly in retaliation for Stunned, a virus believed to have been developed by the United States and Israel in the first decade of the 20th century to undermine Iran's rapidly evolving nuclear program. Cyber ​​Strike, a similar company, discovered a pro-Russian piracy group believed to have intervened in the 2016 and 2018 US elections and created the term "slash bear" to refer to it.

She said she shared information about the reported threats with her counterparts in the US government and Pakistani CERT, a non-governmental organization based in Karachi that, like other computer emergency response teams, is committed to identifying and protecting her country from cyber attacks. In response to the request for suspension, Pakistan's Pakistan Party did not officially confirm the cyber attack against the Pakistani army or the Pakistani government. US intelligence agencies that arrived at the comment did not immediately get the information they could share. The Pakistani embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The reported attacks occurred at a critical moment in Pakistan, where Pakistan lives in a dangerous society between Afghanistan, Iran, and India. The Trump administration does not have a growing preference in the country and faces other threats from cybersecurity. Cylance believes that because of his prominent role in the Pakistani government, including the first cybersecurity center launched earlier this year, the attackers focused on the air force. Professional investigators Livelli said, "Not only will tactical and strategic insight into the success of its Pakistani military spy operations but also produce a series of government and other internal issues."

Pakistan's armed forces play a huge role in their policies. The powerful intelligence service, or ISI, Pakistani dissidents and the CIA, fell into a civil war and launched many coups in its 70-year history.
Pakistan has also been involved in decades of regional influence with rivals and neighboring India. Earlier, the US government has done its utmost to maintain an equal relationship between the two countries because it fears that this would undermine delicate, if not perfect, balance. Despite some concerns that members of the Pakistani government turn a blind eye to the United States, some terrorist activities in northern rural areas or activity with Afghan and Iranian communities on the border, or even collusion, are believed to be still.

However, the Trump administration has taken a hard line towards Islamabad and cut off billions of dollars in foreign military aid until it believes Pakistan is fully attacking these groups. The Pentagon in Trump also took bold steps to rename the military headquarters of the region, the Pacific Command in the United States, to the Pacific Command in the United States.
According to some reports, China is particularly concerned about Pakistan's strategic partnership as a "belt and road" initiative to build trade infrastructure across the continent, although Islamabad has recently reconsidered a close partnership. There are reports that Pakistani scientists indirectly support at least Pyongyang's nuclear program and deliver centrifuge technology to North Korea. 

Like many influential countries, many malicious hackers are interested in attacking Pakistan. "You can imagine that the Pakistani government and its military network, servers, and computers will be the target, and will be the target of attackers in nation-states," said Adam Siege l, director of the Digital and Cyber ​​Policy Program. Foreign Relations Committee. Cy-lance's mission is to identify a group that says that to carry out an attack does not mean that the same group is unknown and is monitored by other companies or governments, possibly with different names. Cybersecurity experts and US officials specializing in areas of growing importance agree that the source of the attack is one of the most difficult aspects of their work. 

Hackers around the world have developed increasingly sophisticated tools to cover their identities or make them look like a third-party liability. Cy-lance officials said the scale of the attack - espionage aimed at stealing sensitive Pakistani information - and the resources needed to carry out the attack showed that it must be backed by the nation-state. It focuses on phishing campaign to access secure computers, detailed scouting to determine the antivirus programs used by Pakistani servers, and secret vulnerabilities that make it impossible to detect hackers. However, Cy-lance reported that the event looked like a shift of focus in 2018 when every program of malware began to stop running away from the anti-virus program in Pakistan openly and publicly appealed to attention to itself.