Kaveri 2.0 portal recovers from DDoS attack

The Kaveri 2.0 portal, which had been affected by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack for the past week, is back on track and back to operating normally from Wednesday, a statement from K.A. Dayananda, Inspector General of Registration and Commissioner of Stamps (IGR&CS), said on Wednesday. 

The total number of registrations on Wednesday was 7,225, and the total revenue collection was ₹62.59 crore, which is around the average number of registrations and revenue collected each day. For instance, in December 2024, the average number of registrations and revenue collection was 7,721 and ₹62.93 crore, respectively. “These numbers indicate that registration activity has returned to normal levels,” IGR&CS said in his statement. On February 1, the number of registrations had reduced to 556 and on February 4, 1657.

Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda said that the DDoS attack carried out using bots started on January 13 and as and when the e-Governance Department fought back, the problem mutated, indicating a concerted, motivated campaign. “We have got the portal running again from Wednesday. But we need to watch this for a couple of days to see if it stabilises. Registration of properties would be affected for a few more days due to the backlog,” he said.

Security measures enhanced

Mr. Byre Gowda said that the government had roped in experts from the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore among others to fortify the portal, to fix vulnerabilities to avoid such attacks in future.

“To address this, a range of enhanced security measures have been implemented to mitigate the future risks and the e-Governance department is continuously monitoring to safeguard the application,” the statement from IGR&CS said.

Meanwhile, the e-Governance Department has reportedly been directed to lodge a complaint with the Cyber Crime Police over the DDoS attack. “We are keen to get to the bottom of this attack. We need to identify who did this and hold them accountable,” Mr. Byre Gowda said.