The cyber sabre on India, Pakistan: Skirmish of hacktivists that shadowed hostilities

Hacktivist groups began cyberattacks on India and Pakistan even before Operation Sindoor got under way on May 7, these including DDoS or Distributed Denial of Service attacks, according to a report purportedly from Mandiant, a cybersecurity firm in the Google Cloud division.

DDoS attacks are those in which a service, like the ability to visit a website or use a network, is denied through deliberate congestion or by exhausting an application’s resources.