I am not kidding when I say this, I sat down with incident manager for a very prestigious institution in Pakistan who had more post nominals on his business card than Abdus Salam, anyway he was using a BlackBerry Key One issued by said org connected to public wifi.
We are probably compromised in every possible sector available with these incompetent chaprasis running things
They cannot be successfully hacking and getting bad info at the same time, unless it is a Honeypot operation, in which case, the security is good.This is what happens when Indians succesfully hacked MoD and Biotech Universities of Pakistan . The majority of Pak Centric news in Indian newspapers comes from the hacked info
Victims and victim
We were able to gain visibility on the victims that were successfully compromised:
- Ministry of Defense- Government of Pakistan
- National Defense University of Islam Abad
- Faculty of Bio-Science, UVAS University, Lahore, Pakistan
- International center for chemical and biological sciences
- HEJ Research institute of chemistry, International center for chemical and biological sciences, univeristy of Karachi
- SHU University, Molecular medicine
Patchwork APT caught in its own web
Patchwork is an Indian threat actor that has been active since December 2015 and usually targets Pakistan via spear phishing attacks….www.malwarebytes.com
Indian Execs actually undergo extensive training on cyber security at corporate level. There was an article about it, I will have to dig it out. We have a lot of catching up to do, but first and foremost we need to get uncles occupying technical offices on early retirement and recruit the best and brightest from places like NUST and UET.
The issue is structurally very deep within Pakistan, even our best and brightest are not too capable from what I hear but instead are just filled with ego and superiority complex till the brim
Nahi yar, I visited SEECS Lab a few months back. NUST is doing ground-breaking work. Not many know that NUST SEECS Lab worked on USB 3.0 architecture. I learned everything about Pineapples and Wifi Pen Testing from my friend who worked at NUST.
Unfortunately, that is the problem - unless or until the last of Boomers and Gen X isn’t gone and Millennials don’t fully take over - Pakistan will remain as it is.
