Guess What the Indian Hackers did to a South African Media Company
Hey Mck’s, Today we are going to talk about a significant cyber attack that caused a lot of trouble to a particular media company after the media company reported something negatively about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modiji. Without any delay let’s get started.
A popular South African news website, Daily Maverick, Claimed to be cyber-attacked by some Indian hackers after they reported That The Indian Prime Minister felt unhappy with the receiving of their government and refused to leave the plain. As We all Know, our Honourable Prime Minister Is In South Africa to attend the BRICS Summit A summit where BRICS country leaders meet, including Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The summit provides an opportunity for these countries to discuss and collaborate on various economic, political, and cultural issues
Since Publishing The Media Company is under Denial of service attack says Daily Maverick in Twitter as you can see in the above threads. A DDoS attack is described as a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, network, or website by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of internet traffic.
“Several hours ago, the site suddenly went down. We picked it up very quickly and started identifying a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We investigated and found it was coming from a whole host of Indian servers,” said Daily Maverick’s security coordinator at 11:30 pm IST on Wednesday. According to Daily Maverick‘s report on Tuesday, when Modi landed at the Waterkloof Air Force Base, he refused to leave the plane because a cabinet minister, rather than President Cyril Ramphosa, had come to welcome him. Ramphosa, however, did welcome Chinese President Xi Jinping. Daily Maverick said on Wednesday night that though the attack was ongoing, the publication had managed to put a firewall in place and put the website back up.
“It was obvious that the purpose of this attack is to deny the people of India access to this story as no attempt was made to hide the source of the attack,” Daily Maverick‘s editor-in-chief Branko Brkic said. “This left us with no option but to block the entire domain of India to protect the integrity of the site.” The website is currently not accessible from India. You can clearly see this from the image below.
“Daily Maverick has been investigating ways to make the article accessible to India but the attack is so large, it’s proving difficult,” the publication stated. Despite these attempts and subsequent denials by Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s office, Daily Maverick stands by its story and will continue to report on developments, Brkic continued. A spokesperson from Mashatile’s office had told WION, “Every aspect of what the Daily Maverick reported is a lie” and that the deputy president did not go to the airport to “appease” Modi, but was there as planned.
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