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Hackers 'force' Indian pilots to listen to Dil Dil Pakistan song
They are targeting Indian carriers landing into airports very close to the LoC.
With rising tensions between India and Pakistan after Indian 'surgical strikes' across the Line of Control (LoC), even hackers are battling it out in cyberspace.
According to a Times of India report, Pakistani hackers are tapping into the frequency on which pilots communicate with Jammu air traffic control (ATC) and transmitting popular Pakistani patriotic song instead.
Hackers are targeting Indian carriers landing into airports very close to the LoC - Jammu and Thoise Air Force base.
They block this communication and start transmitting songs on the frequency which play out in the cockpits.
While all scheduled airlines fly to Jammu, only Air India operates Army charters to the forward base located at Thoise, ToI added.
This defence airport does not get any scheduled flights.
"We are made to hear songs like 'Dil, dil Pakistan, Jaan Jaan Pakistan (an iconic 80s song by Pakistani band Vital Signs). Hacking of our frequency has been happening for some time now. In such a situation, we revert to the Northern Control in Udhampur.
"This IAF-run ATC coordinates with aircraft when they are over 10,000 feet high and on descending below that level, we switch over to the Jammu tower," said a senior pilot who flies to high altitude airports.
The Northern Control calls up the Jammu ATC on landline and gets alternate frequency from them. It then tells pilots to speak to Jammu on that frequency.
Unable to quickly hack into the alternate frequency, pilots get time to land into Jammu or Thoise by being in touch with the ATC, the report added.
"We use VHF, which is line of sight communication and is known as 'if you can see us, you can talk to us.' Due to this, hackers frequently jam our frequency with ATC and start playing their music. This is a big irritant as we are in final stage of landing," said another pilot.
As a precautionary measure, the Jammu ATC frequency is changed very frequently to minimize cross-LoC hacking.
Dil Dil Pakistan is one of Pakistan's most iconic national songs, and was ranked as one of the world's top 10 favourite songs in a BBC poll.
The report has gone viral in Pakistan after being picked up by local media.
The story originally appeared here.
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