Close on the heels of China and Pakistan persistently hacking Central Government and corporate websites, Bangladeshi hackers have joined the club through cyber attacks on India — targeting the Border Security Force (BSF) in particular against which it carries a grouse for perceived atrocities on Bangla nationals.

The Bangladeshi hackers said their action was in response to the alleged killings by BSF on the border between the two countries. The Bangladeshi hackers group identifying itself as Black HAT Hackers claimed to have hacked thousands of Indian websites in retaliation to the cyber attacks by the Indian Cyber Army and Indishell which have hacked over 400 Bangladeshi websites. The Black HAT Hackers also claimed to have opposition to the Tapaimukh Dam.

Cyber security expert and Director at Torrid Networks, Dhruv Soi said, “With Bangladeshi hackers joining the cyber offensives against India, the Government of India must adopt better mechanisms to safeguard cyber space.” On the side note Soi adds, Government of India needs to work with professional and niche ethical hacking companies. Without claiming any promotion here, our company has proven its mettle to many critical government departments. Be it safeguarding Common Wealth Games website where international hacking groups sweared to hack it, or its a routine web application security. Whatsoever government departments we have worked with so far, we did a commendable job which is lauded by the management of those departments, resulting in business references for us.

On the contrary of this, most of the government departments are engaged with lowest-bid counters and the results comes quick, not so pleasant otherwise. Indian government needs to think a step ahead to fight the cyber criminal and convert its low-bid approach to high-tech deliverable, else the government online systems will always be seen as victim of this never ending cycle.

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