Researchers from Cyber-security firm CloudSEK have discovered a hacktivist group from Bangladesh called Mysterious Team Bangladesh (MT) that is targeting the Indian government’s websites and servers.
The group is using DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks against domains and subdomains of several state governments and a web server hosted by the Indian government. Websites belonging to the governments of Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Punjab and Tamil Nadu were affected.
The attack was discovered when one of the members of the hacking group claimed in a post about launching an HTTP flood DDoS attack on government websites. Similar posts were seen on multiple platforms, including Facebook, Pastebin, and Telegram.
The group majorly operates and communicates via Facebook, Telegram and Twitter and the members primarily reside in the Chittagong area of Bangladesh. It was found that hackers used the Raven Storm tool for DDoS attacks. The tool uses multithreading for sending multiple packets at the same time to get the target (server) down.
Abhinav Pandey, Cyber Threat Researcher- CloudSEK, said, “Through meticulous analysis and profiling of multiple groups, it can be rightly concluded that such hacktivist groups collaborate amongst each other excessively to conduct nefarious attacks, DDoS being the primary one, followed by defacing attacks. Raven Storm has been the most prevalent tool employed, for such impactful DDoS attacks, by such hacktivist groups.”
This is the second time that such attacks have surfaced, the first being launched by Malaysia-based hacktivist group DragonForce against the Indian government after suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s controversial statement.
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