Pakistani spy arrested for stealing sensitive information by sending malware to Indian Army Officers’ mobiles

Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad investigates

Arrested Pakistani Spy

Ahmedabad (Gujarat) – On 20th October, the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad arrested a 53-year-old man named Labhshankar Duryodhan Maheshwari on charges of helping Pakistani agents to get sensitive information about Indian soldiers. Originally from Pakistan, Maheshwari was spying for Islamabad.

Maheshwari was a Pakistani native and in 1999 he came to Gujarat’s Tarapur town in Anand district. He has also got Indian citizenship. Now, Anti-Terrorist Squad is conducting raids at various locations to find out those Indians who are known to him.

According to the ATS, Maheshwari helped Pakistani agents access an Indian SIM card, which they used to hack the phones of Indian defence personnel’s wards in Army schools.

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| Ahmedabad, Gujarat: On the arrest of a Pakistani spy, Gujarat ATS SP Om
Prakash Jat says, “Gujarat ATS received input from the military
intelligence that a Pakistani army or a Pakistan agent is using WhatsApp on an
Indian SIM Card… He was sending Remote Access Trojan… https://t.co/JvitqnyjS7
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ANI (@ANI) October
20, 2023

Maheshwari, posing as an employee of an Army school, started sending messages to defence personnel. He used to urge them to download an ‘apk’ file and upload information about their children on the official website of the school, the ATS official added. “In reality, that ‘apk’ file was a Remote Access Trojan, a type of malware that extracts all the information from a mobile phone, such as contacts, location and videos, and sends the data to a command and control centre outside India.