HQ/EMEAFind out how we can help your business
The Mysterious Team Bangladesh hacktivist group is allegedly responsible for more than 750 DDoS attacks and nearly 80 website defacements in India since June last year.
According to reports, most of the targets the threat actors compromised came from India and Israel’s financial, government, and logistics sectors. The researchers claimed that the political and religious motives of the Bangladeshi actors primarily drove these attacks.
The malicious group have also targeted countries outside India and Israel, such as Ethiopia, Sweden, Australia, Senegal, and the Netherlands. Threat analysts claimed that the attackers acquired access to admin panels and web servers for their attacks by exploiting known security vulnerabilities and poorly secured passwords.
Hackers formed the Mysterious Team Bangladesh to allegedly safeguard their country’s cyberspace.
The Mysterious Team Bangladesh operators have established organisations to protect their country’s cybersecurity. Their intro on their Facebook page also implies they are committed to blocking other malicious entities.
Additionally, the cybercrime group has an active social media presence on Twitter and Telegram. It also has a LinkedIn profile list called Operation Israel, an ongoing project since June 2022. The attacks also claim that it supports Palestine and revealed that they will not stop attacking Israeli cyberspace unless they stop killing Palestinians.
The first detail about this “hacktivist” group first popped out last year after a cybersecurity researcher disclosed its plans to compromise India-based entities. Furthermore, the group is also the alleged culprit of a December 2022 attack on India’s CBHE system that exposed numerous individuals’ PIIs and government identification numbers. Researchers have also attributed an attack on several UAE government websites to the Mysterious Team Bangladesh group.
Lastly, the group’s first cybercriminal campaign against India happened in June last year, when they showed interest in government resources, banking websites, and financial organisations.
The re-emergence of such hacktivist groups in different countries could be because of the ongoing geopolitical conflict in Ukraine. The war has influenced various entities to defend their territories so they would not suffer the same issue and prevent a similar scenario within their countries.
