How did Kaveri 2.0 fall to a DDoS?

• Kaveri 2.0, a property registration portal in Karnataka, experienced server outages in January 2024.

• The outage was not due to technical glitches but a “motivated Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.”

• K. A. Dayananda, Inspector General of Registrations and Commissioner of Stamps, lodged a complaint with the cyber-crime police.

• The cyberattack was caused by a malicious DDoS attack using automated tools or bots.

• The attack led to service downtime, disruption, and potential loss of revenue.

• The portal experienced performance issues in December 2024 and January 2025, with fake accounts created and entries made into the database.

• The portal received 6.2 lakh requests in just two hours from malicious users using random keywords to perform searches.

• To mitigate DDoS attacks, organizations should implement advanced traffic filtering mechanisms, monitoring tools, rate limiting, bot detection technologies, robust authentication mechanisms, regular security audits, and collaboration with cybersecurity agencies.

• Other major DDoS attacks include Elon Musk-owned X in August 2024 and Microsoft-owned code repository GitHub in 2015.