Pakistani Hackers In Massive Attack On Costa Rica Government Websites

[BHarwana]

A group of Pakistani hackers managed to circumvent security and hacked several Costa Rican government websites this Sunday and still on Monday morning.

The group of hackers is called Pak Monster Cyber Thunders and attacked the websites with the domain extension .GO.CR – that is the domains assigned by the Costa Rica domain registrar, NIC.cr, to the government.

Between the attacked sites they are the Municipality of Puntarenas, Municipality of Matina, Municipality of Corridores, Municipality of San Isidro, among others.

In addition, the following websites were affected: Presidential House, Minaet, MEP, MCJ, Ministry of Security and even the OIJ, according to the report of several users.

Local television station Teletica.com confirmed this morning that several websites were still not working. The Q was able to confirm that the Presidencia.go.cr is now working, as well as the Minae.go.cr, Mep.go.cr, the OIJ website Poder-judicial.go.cr/oijand others.

According to the expert in cybersecurity, Esteban Jiménez, this situation is very worrying and shows that “the country does not have an operational incident response center or an organized chain of response nor protocols to help us mitigate an attack on big scale”.

In Costa Rica, the management of government cybersecurity is under the responsibility of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications (MICITT), which has not commented on the attack.

“All these domains must be put on primary alert. However, in Costa Rica there is no chain or formal incident control process and the CSIRT-CR is inoperative, so we inform and each institution,” said the expert.

It is presumed that the cyber attack may be due as a response to the departure of the United States from the nuclear agreement and the Israeli attacks.

The threat would have targeted all western countries allied with the United States, including Costa Rica.




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[BHarwana]

Although a bad act and condemned but impressed. Pakistani hacker have a black out capability.

 

[YeBeWarned]

and ?

 

[Talwar e Pakistan]

Why?

 

[BHarwana]

Why?

I have no idea why the country was attacked.

Only few logical reason can come to mind.

A. Because of Israeli embassy moves the country has good ties with Israel.
B. Sites attacked were citizen identity related so could be a case of identity theft to sell on black market.
C. Country is a USA neighbor and well protected in cyber space. The attack was just to demonstrate cyber capabilities of a coordinated country wide attack. commonly known as "black out"

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Instead of attaching Costa Rica or similar states..

These hackers should work for the country , maybe offer their services to the ISI or other Intel Agencies ...

And attack US,Indian,Israeli etc targets to gain info like Chinese hackers.

 

[BHarwana]

Why?

One more reason could be that they have developed a new tool and attack was just to test the tool and how potent it was before attack the actual target. This is a common practice of Hackers.

But this attack is no small deal taking out govt servers is a difficult thing and data is usually secure by professional companies of cyber security.

 

[Sine Nomine]

And attack US,Indian,Israeli etc targets to gain info like Chinese hackers.

None of them is capable to do so,otherwise they would have done.

 

[Imran Khan]

fazool log

 

[GumNaam]

Friggin' Costa Rica???

 

[Sharky]

Haha this is embarrassing. Even hacking Indian govt websites should be an easy job. The cyber security infra for our country is a joke. Our aadhar information is secure behind 18 feet 'fire wall' and hence very secure. According to the leading man who is responsible for aadhar. This country is run by low IQ morons goddamnit.

 

[Lahorie]

Instead of attaching Costa Rica or similar states..

These hackers should work for the country , maybe offer their services to the ISI or other Intel Agencies ...

And attack US,Indian,Israeli etc targets to gain info like Chinese hackers.

Maybe they already have. Who knows!

 

[Areesh]

Why Costa Rica???

Idiots

 

[Zarvan]

Instead of attaching Costa Rica or similar states..

These hackers should work for the country , maybe offer their services to the ISI or other Intel Agencies ...

And attack US,Indian,Israeli etc targets to gain info like Chinese hackers.

O bhai that is exactly I am suggesting we need entire new agency like NSA. Yes we lack budget but we have to start with what ever we have. Also other agencies need to develop their cyber wings.

 

[Baby Leone]

stupidity.......