Days after the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on the web-based portal Kaveri 2.0 that streamlines property registrations in the state, K. A. Dayananda, Inspector General of Registrations and Commissioner of Stamps (IGR & CS) finally lodged a complaint with the cyber crime police on Friday.
The Central CEN Police have registered a case under the Information Technology Act, 2000, against unidentified miscreants.
In his complaint, Mr. Dayananda said that the first such attack on Kaveri 2.0 dates back to December 2024.
“The Kaveri 2.0 faced some performance issues during December 2024. Upon analysis and inputs from the Centre for Smart Governance, it was found that these issues were caused by a malicious DDoS attack using automated tools or bots. Fake accounts were created and entries were made into the database using these fake accounts through automated tools or bots. CSG has shared a list of 62 email accounts originating from 14 IP addresses which were used to push the data,” the FIR said.
Further, the FIR says: “A similar attack took place in January 2025, where extremely high traffic was observed from citizen-side users for EC searches, which was eight times more than usual. At some point, it was reported that 6.2 lakh requests were received from malicious users in two hours. These users were using random keywords to perform searches.” The IGR & CS has provided a list of these accounts and keyword searches along with the complaint.”
The attack had crippled the Kaveri 2.0 portal and the number of registrations had fallen significantly on February 1 and 4 . It was restored on February 5.
“As Kaveri 2.0 is a critical application of the government, and such a malicious attack is a serious cyber security threat, this targeted assault on the government portal poses a significant risk to its security and operational integrity, which demands urgent attention and immediate remedial action,” Mr. Dayananda said in his complaint.
Published - February 07, 2025 08:04 pm IST
