A familiar, uneasy brink appears to be looming between India and Pakistan once again, where geopolitical tension spills over borders into less visible spheres and risks spilling over into more obscure regions.
As the war intensified in May 2025, cyberspace became one of the next arenas that was contested.
Pakistan-linked hacktivist groups began claiming widespread cyberattacks on Indian government bodies, academic institutions, and critical infrastructure elements as the result of heightened hostilities. It appeared, at first glance, that the volume of asserted attacks indicated that there was a broad cyber offensive on the part of the perpetrators.
There is, however, a more nuanced story to be told when we take a closer look at the reports.
According to findings from security firm CloudSEK, many of these alleged breaches were either overstated or entirely fabrications, based on recycled data dumps, cosmetic website defacements, and short-lived interruptions that caused little harm to operations.
Despite the symphonic noise surrounding the Pahalgam terror attack, a more sobering development lay instead behind the curtain. It was an intrusion campaign targeting Indian defense-linked networks based on the Crimson RAT malware that was deployed by the APT36 advanced persistent threat group.
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