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Hacktivist Group From Bangladesh Launches Cyber Attack On Indian Government Websites
A hacktivist faction, targeting Indian government websites and servers has been uncovered by an AI-powered cyber intelligence and threat identifier firm called CloudSEK.
CloudSEK asserted the group used DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks against domains and sub-domains of various state governments and a web server hosted by the Indian government.
Group of Young Lads Claimed Cyberattack on Government Webs
On July 12, a member of Mysterious Team Bangladesh (MT), with the handle D4RK TSN publicized a post on Pastebin and Facebook, professing to have performed an HTTP flood DDoS attack on India-based government websites.
One of the co-founders of MT Ahmed and the rest of the group largely comprises students or recent graduates between the age of 20 to 25 years that formerly operated under the hacker organization Elite Force 71, Bangladesh Cyber Anonymous Team, and Taskin Vau.
However, they are principally stimulated by hacktivism and have associations with an Indonesia-based hacktivist group, Hacktivist of Garuda.
Moreover, they were previously involved in mass reporting of content across public platforms like Youtube, Facebook, Linkedin, etc.
This is the second time that such attacks have emerged, the first being initiated by Malaysia-based hacktivist group DragonForce against the Indian government after rescinding BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s questionable statement.
The plan behind the first series of attacks was probably to incite violence and publicity as well. The DragonForce had virtually declared itself as a ransomware group if it had not been outed, Pandey added.
Regulating Measures To Prevent Subsequent Attacks
CloudSEK inferred the use of the Raven Storm tool by the Secretive Team for DDoS attacks. The tool utilizes multi-threading for sending multiple packets at the same time to get the victim (server) down.
The firm also added that such attacks jeopardize the security and privacy of data on websites.
Some security marks might malfunction further escalating the site’s vulnerability to cyber-attacks. Website infrastructural ravage might induce its services and resources inaccessible to the user.
However, steps to protect against such nasty attacks include blocking unwarranted IP addresses and deploying Load Balancer and DDoS safety services.
Regular upgrades of software and supervising susceptibility assessments of impacted web servers help spot and fasten the gap in security.
Furthermore, across comprehensive analysis and profiling of numerous groups, it can be rightly deduced that such hacktivist groups band unduly to conduct nefarious attacks, DDoS being the primary one, followed by defacing attacks.
