Cyberattack Attempts On India's CBSE Portal

Source: NDTV

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), a national level board of education in India for public and private schools, has said that its re-evaluation and verification portal remained operational despite facing multiple cyberattack attempts on the first day of the application process. In an update shared on X, CBSE revealed that the platform was targeted by a large-scale denial-of-service (DoS) attack, which generated nearly 1.5 million hits within a span of two minutes. The board also recorded more than one lakh attempts to gain unauthorised access to files hosted on the system. "While thousands of students accessed the CBSE re-evaluation portal today, malicious actors attempted to disrupt services through a barrage of cyberattacks," the board said. Full Story