Pakistani Hacker Defaced Canara Bank Site - Slogan Raised

" Just Hours before the Independence Day Celebration, The Team of Pakistani Hackers ' Pakistan Cyber Attackers - PCA ' launched an attack on Indian Bank Website. " 

MUMBAI: Amid frosty relations with Pakistan a hacker from the neighboring country has attacked Canara Bank, one of India's largest lenders. On August 2, the hacker, who calls himself Faisal, defaced the bank's site by inserting a malicious page and tried to block some of the bank's its E-payment services.

Within 24 hours of the attack, the Reserve Bank of India, in a letter marked `confidential', advised bank chairmen to review funds lying in their banks (overseas) nostrum accounts and carry out hourly reconciliation of payment emails by comparing outward messages with SWIFT confirmations. SWIFT is the global financial messaging service banks use to move millions of dollars every day.

"We have filed an FIR with the cyber crime department of the police. The bank immediately took note of the attack and isolated the server and diverted the traffic to a standby server," a senior Canara bank official told ET.

The hacker had used an URL to insert the page on bank's site but could not access data. "There was no loss..As of now we are seeing 20,000 online payment transactions," said the official.

The hacker, who unsuccessfully tried to disrupt tax payments by Indians, left a message which read, "Government of India website stamped by Faisal 1337. We are a team of  ' Pak Cyber Attackers '. Go Home Kiddo. Need Security? Contact me: www.facebook.com/Pakistan1337.  Pakistan Zindabad "

The cyber strike, coming a fortnight before the Independence Day celebrations, is redolent of a similar attack last year. In July 2015, two large private sector banks and one government bank had to grapple with a cyber menace known as "distributed denial of service". A DDOS attack (in cyber parlance) is often mistaken as normal traffic overload on the Net. In mounting such strikes, hackers, who are spread across the world and either sympathetic to lost causes or indulging in the game of extortion, virtually 'take over' thousands of computers in various destinations; they divert traffic from these terminals to clog the systems of targets like banks and E-commerce firms. (According to an ethical hacker, many e-commerce firms with rudimentary cyber security checks are more vulnerable than banks.)

The August 3 RBI note to banks is also linked to last month's cyber attack on Union Bank which narrowly escaped a $160m fraud. In the Union Bank case, hackers had infiltrated the bank to compromise the credentials of the bank employee which administers SWIFT service.

Among other control measures, RBI in its letter told banks to implement time restrictions for access to SWIFT and currency-wise message limits; monitor authorised users of SWIFT and keep a senior official on call to whom emergency communications from RBI can be addressed. Such a person, said the regulator, should be in a position to "escalate and respond immediately."

The Canara Bank website is now recovered but the message is clear that Pakistani Hackers aren't sleeping and they have proved that they can hack whenever they want...

" That's clear, The Cyber War between the two countries not going to settle soon and all of a sudden Cyber attacks are increasing day by day from both sides teams. The Pak Cyber Attackers is lead by some of the professional hackers very well known as " kashmiri Cheetah , Faisal 1337 , Nabil Tanoli " 

"  PAKISTAN ZINDABAD  " 

LONG LIVE PCA AND MEMBERS.