As per information provided on The Hindu website, the Maharashtra police registered an FIR in connection with the Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack on Internet Service Providers (ISPs) on Sunday. A virus called Trojan has been discovered to be used to attack millions of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. What’s worrisome is the fact that the attack is still being carried out.
An officer with the investigating team told The Hindu, ‘We have been mitigating the attack, blocking all the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses involved as soon as we identify them. The attack, however, still continues. The resources behind the attack have to be considerable. We are trying to trace the location from which the attack is being orchestrated.’
According to the investigation, small and medium ISP’s are especially being targeted by the DDOS attack, which has been carried out on a massive scale since Monday at a speed of 200 gigabytes per second. The Cyber Crime department of the Maharashtra Police is currently working in collaboration with the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team to mitigate the attack and trace the source.
According to the post on The Hindu, IGP (Cyber Crime) Brijesh Singh said, ‘An FIR has been filed with the Cyber police station in BKC under sections 43 (F) and 66 of the Information Technology Act. We are investigating.’
Police said many IP addresses worldwide are infected with Trojans, which find their way into computers through spam mail or advertisements on web pages, and users don’t realize it. The Trojans lie dormant till a hacker needs them to perform a specific function, and they can be programmed to strike together in a consolidated attack.
