SOURCE:
Mannan Kakkar
ZDNet

Saturday, January 07, 2012


On January 6th
reports of Symantec (makers of Norton Anitvirus) being hacked surfaced.
The group of hackers behind the attack behind the attack were from
India. In a statement issued by a member from the Lords of Dharamraja group (badass name!), the guys said:As
of now we start sharing with all our brothers and followers
information from the Indian Militaty (sic) Intelligence servers, so far
we have discovered within the Indian Spy Programme (sic) source codes
of a dozen software companies which have signed agreements with Indian
TANCS programme (sic) and CBIIgnoring
the typing error, gaining access to Indian Military’s Intelligence
servers is pretty damning for the agency. The hack got covered since
the hackers claimed to have acces to Norton’s source code. Earlier today I came across
scans of a set of documents that are internal communications between
the Indian Military. The documents claim the existence of a system known
as RINOA SUR. While I did not find what SUR stands for but RINOA is RIM, NOkia and Apple.
And this is where things start to get very interesting, according to
the set of documents, the RINOA SUR platform was used to spy on the USCC—the
US-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Let’s take a moment
for that to digest. Here’s an image from the documents underlining the
relevant part:


The
documents contain snippets of emails sent by members of the USCC.
Apparently, RINOA SUR platform has been declared a success and the
Indian Navy has shown interest in the same. The leaked military
documents suggest, RINOA were arm twisted into providing backdoor access
in exchange for operating in India:


















While the Indian government recently gave the nation’s premiere spy
agency—RAW—permission to access any citizen’s electronic communication,
the Department of Telecommunications has reached out to the Interpol
for help in decrypting communication via services like RIM’s
BlackBerry.