ISLAMABAD – *Pakistan government takes important decision over the cybersecurity espionage against top government officials.*
In order to safeguard itself from regular breaches of data in the age ofhacking, Government of Pakistan is developing its own version ofWhatsApp-like application for its government officials.
“We have been working to improve our cyber security and develop a messagingapplication like WhatsApp for government officials,” said Dr Arslan Khalid,Prime Minister Imran Khan’s focal person on digital media, quoted *ArabNews*. “This local application will help us protect sensitive governmentdata and other classified information from hostile spying agencies andhackers,” he added.
The development comes after reports emerged in October that apps loadedwith malware are targeting Pakistan’s military and government.
“The Pakistani military, other government agencies and their officials werealso the subject of a concurrent espionage campaign employing both mobileand desktop components BlackBerry researchers have dubbed OPERATIONDUALPAK2 which utilizes newly identified Windows malware family BlackBerryresearchers have dubbed PWNWIN2. BlackBerry researchers determined thiseffort to be the work of another state-sponsored APT group known asCONFUCIUS,” Canadian tech company BlackBerry said in a report.
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Meanwhile, the upcoming messaging platform would work as an officialcommunication channel between all federal ministries to share officialdocuments.
“This network will have the ministry of defense, interior and others on itsince we don’t want any sensitive information to be leaked,” said Ali KhanJadoon, a ruling party lawmaker and chairman of the National AssemblyStanding Committee on Information Technology.
He added that the platform would be accessible only through unique ID.
