The Central Board of Secondary Education’s (CBSE) re-evaluation portal was targeted by a large-scale cyberattack involving nearly 3.8 million malicious packets on June 3 in an attempt to disrupt the ongoing verification and re-evaluation process, a board official has said. CBSE’s re-evaluation portal targeted by large-scale cyberattack involving nearly 3.8 million malicious packets on June 3 (Parveen Kumar/HT) Within minutes of becoming operational on June 2, the portal blocked over 100,000 unauthorised access attempts, an official said. Several coordinated high-volume traffic bursts resembling Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks were mitigated by the security systems. “The traffic profile showed coordinated request surges consistent with DDoS-type attack patterns. However, the security architecture deployed on the platform successfully mitigated the threat and ensured continuity of services,” a CBSE official told ANI. Re-evaluation portal goes live The board has received 70,443 applications as of June 4 through the post-result grievance redressal mechanism. These included 7,314 applications for verification of marks and 63,119 applications for re-evaluation, officials said. The re-evaluation portal, originally scheduled to go live on June 1, was launched …