The defacement of the NSG website was noticed on the intervening night of December 31 and January 1, and its URL — www.nsg.gov.in — was blocked immediately. Officials said authorities had uploaded very basic information about the commando force onto the website, keeping such cyber threats in view. “We are working with experts from the National Informatics Centre, and corrective steps are being taken,” an NSG official said on the condition of anonymity.

Soi, director of cyber security firm Torrid Networks, said defacement was usually done by “immature” hackers for publicity. They usually strike on occasions such as year-end holidays, when there is minimal presence of staffers, he added. “Serious hackers, on the other hand, go digging for sensitive information from cyber infrastructures by installing malware or similar tracking programs in the system,” said Soi.

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Hacking group ‘Legion’, which claimed responsibility for the act, is still out of police reach but investigators suspect one of the group members to be an Indian. Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter account was hacked on November 30, flooded with a series of abusive tweets.  A day later, the official handle of the Congress party was hacked. According to a senior officer, the Delhi Police had written to Twitter and the ISP to get the IP log of devices and locations used to access the compromised accounts.

‘These hackers are smart. They don’t take advantage of proxies alone but also know the geo-political relationships and privacy-friendly nations to find safe havens. Tracking requires multinational coordination to draw connections between the proxies and reach out to the original source, which India lacks,’ said cyber crime expert Dhruv Soi of Torrid Networks Limited.

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