After Canada and Palestine, Indian hackers launch cyber attacks on Qatar to avenge death penalty of former Navy officers

An Indian hacker group, named ‘Indian Cyber Force’ launched cyber attacks on Qatar in response to the death sentence handed to eight former Indian Navy officers by a Qatari court in Espionage case.

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The Indian hackers claimed of carrying out cyber attacks on Qatar on November 7. They also alleged of executing unauthorised server access, leaked credential data, defaced websites, and launched DDoS attacks. They also breached the CCTV camera web servers of the country.

The Indian hacker group re-shared a post of Fusion Intelligence Center on X, formerly Twitter. In its post, Fusion Intelligence Center said that Indian Cyber Force launched cyber attacks on Qatar.

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The hacker group also claimed to expose account information related to Qatar and unauthorised access to Qatar's CCTV camera web servers. Later in the day, the group of cyber attackers said that it has stopped its cyber attack on the website of a Qatar's mall.

Weeks ago, a Qatari court had awarded death sentence to eight former Indian Navy personnel in October. The former naval officers had been working for Al Dahra company on a submarine project for the Qatari authorities when they were detained more than a year ago. Currently, the Ministry of External Affairs is negotiating with the Qatar government for the safety of former Navy officials.

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Cyber attacks on Palestine and Canada

Earlier, the group had claimed of targeting Canadian government websites and Palestinian websites. Month ago, after the beginning of Israel-Hamas war, Indian Hackers Group announced that it has hacked Hamas website. The group began to post about their cyber attacks on Hamas from October 8.

“Palestinian more than 200+ Network Device's has been Hacked. Included School,Hospital, etc. Msg to Palestinian Terrorists: If you consider yourself a true man, Fight with Real Men face to face instead of hiding behind the shield of women and kids like you Terrorists always do,” wrote Indian Cyber Force on X.

Indian Hackers Group, on October 10, claimed of hacking 200 Palestinian network devices. Those devices also included hospitals, and schools.

Earlier, the group had claimed of targeting Canadian websites. The target on Canadian websites was made in response to Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's comments on the killings of Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

“We have no hates for Canada or it's people. We just noticed how recently Canada government throw some allegations on India without any vaild reference. We are against all the Khalistani Terrorists. It's a humble request to Canada government to take care of your mother land, focus on its security, make it safe for world wide people instead of putting blame on anyone with dummy reference,” wrote the cyber attackers group in another post on X.