In a response to a declaration made by some religious and ideologically motivated underground hacker groups on 31st July to launch 'a storm of cyber-attacks' against Bangladesh cyberspace on 15th August, Bangladesh Government's Computer Incident Response Team (BGD e-GOV CIRT) released an alert to warn critical information infrastructures (CII), banks and financial institutions, health care and all sorts of government and private organizations of the possible cyber-attacks by the groups that may disrupt IT operations and businesses, reports UNB.
All organizations are advised to be on alert for small to medium-scale cyber-attacks originating from the hacktivist groups and to take the required precautions to protect their infrastructures.
The CIRT alert said these groups have been targeting organizations from Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
"In our recent research, we identified several groups with the same motivation. They have been incessantly conducting frequent cyber-attacks against organizations in Bangladesh affecting its operations and businesses," it said.
The groups’ primary attack tactics are said to include Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, website defacements, compromising the website and using malicious PHP shells as a backdoor to drop payloads.
The top targeted organization types, according to CIRT, are Gov’t & Military, Law Enforcement Agencies, Banking and NBFI, Pharmaceuticals, Retail and Industrial Organizations, and Energy and education sectors.
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