Daily Times

Pakistan’s intelligence agencies have identified a major cyber attack by Indian Intelligence Agencies involving a range of cyber crimes including deceitful fabrication by hacking personal mobiles and technical gadgets of government officials and military personnel.

The various targets of hostile intelligences agencies were being investigated, said Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) in a press release on Wednesday. Pakistan Army has further enhanced necessary measures to thwart such activities including action against violators of standing operating procedures (SOPs) on cyber security, it said. An advisory is also being sent to all government departments and institutions for identifying lapses and enhance respective cyber security measures, it added.

On July 26, Pakistan Army troops had shot down an Indian spying quadcopter in Pandu sector along the Line of Control (LoC).

“The quadcopter had intruded 200 metres on Pakistan’s side of the LoC,” ISPR Director General Major General Babar Iftikhar had said in a tweet, adding that this was the 10th Indian quadcopter to be shot down by Pakistan Army troops this year.