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Everyone seems to assume it is the central government. No one has remarked on this, the following somewhat obvious. One of the screenshots has a heading in Mala
by sn41 6y ago
Everyone seems to assume it is the central government. No one has remarked on this, the following somewhat obvious. One of the screenshots has a heading in Malayalam, saying "Bill Vivarangal" - "Bill details" [1].
Was it some government of Kerala service which was breached? Or is it one of several governments? Or was it only the central government with Malayalam as the language set for the interface?
If it was an Indian hacker, they would know that the language will be a big giveaway, so they would have obscured it. (India has about 15 official languages, and probably about 10 scripts each with 10+ million users [2].) Overall, I cannot dismiss the feeling that it is some script kiddie who attacked some underfunded department, rather than some big deal.
[1] https://johnjhacking.com/uploads/session-chained.png https://johnjhacking.com/uploads/session-chained.png
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmic_scripts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmic_scripts
- imvetri 6y agoTamil kooda irukalam
- _hello_user 6y agohttps://sakurasamurai.org https://sakurasamurai.org is newly added domain (suspicious). In India there are some motivated groups try to blame central government for every action. I believe this is a new group and trying the same thing.
- sn41 6y agoI am not a fan of any government or political party in particular. Just pointing out an obvious fact. But the newly registered domain is not a red flag per se. That's how experienced groups might also go about covering their tracks.
- eganist 6y agoThe domain is fine. My reasoning is that I know John (johnjhacking), have worked with him, have at times educated him, have on more occasions learned from him, and lastly, the attribution chain is * twitter.com/johnjhacking refers users to * twitter.com/sakurasamuraii, which links * sakurasamurai.org It's not a random group trying to defame a government. It's a known security researcher with a sterling rep.
- vijaybritto 6y ago> "some motivated groups try to blame central government for every action" Nice try there bro. But unfortunately newly added domain doesnt disprove anything mentioned in the article.