New Delhi: A hacktivist group often called Mysterious Team Bangladesh has been linked to greater than 750 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) assaults and 78 web site defacements since June 2022, primarily concentrating on authorities, monetary, and transportation sector organisations with sturdy concentrate on India, a brand new report has proven.
According to the cybersecurity agency Group-IB, the group emerged in 2020 however solely started to garner international consideration in 2022 after a sequence of cyber raids towards high-level targets in India, Israel, and different international locations.
“The threat of hacktivism is often underestimated. Hacktivists frequently target critical infrastructure facilities, telecom companies, financial institutions, and governmental organisations. Unlike ransomware threat actors, hacktivists do not engage in negotiations. Their actions are intended to disrupt critical systems, leading to potentially massive monetary and reputational losses for affected organizations,” stated Group-IB’s researchers.
The group is primarily pushed by non secular and political motives, stated the report.
Some of the opposite focused international locations included Australia, Senegal, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Ethiopia.
Moreover, the menace actor is alleged to have gained entry to internet servers and administrative panels, most certainly by using recognized safety flaws or weak passwords.
The report additional talked about that the hacktivist group most frequently exploits weak variations of PHPMyAdmin and WordPress and depends on open-source utilities for conducting DDoS and defacement assaults.
According to the report, a Telegram person below the nickname D4RK_TSN is believed to be the founding father of Mysterious Team Bangladesh.
The researchers assume that the group will broaden its operations additional this yr and can doubtless intensify its assaults in Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East.
In addition, the researchers consider that the hacktivist group will proceed to have a specific concentrate on monetary firms and authorities entities.
