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- According to a study by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Indian hackers were sent by the nation's secret services to target Pakistani lawmakers, army generals, and top bureaucrats.
According to the UK-based organization's research, Indian hackers were spying on senior Pakistani figures in their most recent hacking effort after receiving filthy assignments from the country's current authorities.
According to the article, while the most well-known Pakistan-related target was the previous dictator General Pervez Musharraf, certain individuals were given the responsibility early this year to keep a watch on the former information minister Fawad Chaudhry.
The stunning disclosure in the most recent exposés revealed that several malwares were utilised to hijack the computers of senior generals and embassies in Kathmandu, Beijing, and Shanghai in a similar fashion.
TV cybersecurity expert Aditya Jain was running a hacker ring known as WhiteInt out of the Indian city of Gurugram.
For years, the hacking group, which was based in a location southwest of the Indian capital, managed a network of hackers for the benefit of UK investigators looking to access email accounts and snoop its targets' sophisticated devices
According to the study, scores of British lawyers and members of affluent families, including Ashok Hinduja and Robert Tchenguiz, were targets in addition to more than 100 others who were critics of Qatar.
Former UK chancellor of the exchequer Philip Hammond, British-based oligarch Nathalie Goulet, ex-president of European football Michel Platini, Sunday Times editor Jonathan Calvert, BBC political editor Chris Mason, Swiss President Ignazio Cassis and his deputy Alain Berset, Formula One racing executives Ruth Buscombe and Otmar Szafnauer, former Fifa and Uefa investigator Nick Raudenski, and AP journalist
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