Bangladesh hacktivists focus DDoS attacks and data breaches on India: Report
1 year, 7 months ago

Bangladesh hacktivists focus DDoS attacks and data breaches on India: Report

India TV News  

Bangladesh hacktivists focus DDoS attacks and data breaches on India: Report The hacktivist group known as Mysterious Team Bangladesh has been revealed as responsible for more than 750 distributed denial-of-service attacks and 78 website defacements since June 2022. A hacktivist collective named Mysterious Team Bangladesh has been identified as the source behind over 750 distributed denial-of-service attacks and 78 website defacements since June 2022. Although Mysterious Team Bangladesh first emerged in 2020, it gained global recognition in 2022 due to its cyber campaigns targeting high-profile entities in India, Israel, and other nations. The report indicates that Mysterious Team Bangladesh typically exploits vulnerable versions of PHPMyAdmin and WordPress, using open-source tools for executing DDoS attacks and defacements.

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2024: A year of data leaks, espionage, and DDoS attacks
3 months ago

2024: A year of data leaks, espionage, and DDoS attacks

India Today  

2024 has been an eventful year for Indian cyberspace as firms suffered massive data breaches resulting in millions of dollars in losses, Indian defence institutions faced espionage bids and many important sites were taken down by ideologically-motivated hackers. The hacking of Burger Singh fast food chain site, SPARSH pension portal, and attacks on Hathway internet service provider, Telangana Police’s Hawk …

Amateur hackers wage cyber war amid India-Bangladesh tensions
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Amateur hackers wage cyber war amid India-Bangladesh tensions

India Today  

They are the 'watchers', the 'protectors', and the punishers delivering 'justice' in their own style – sitting thousands of kilometres away. Bangladeshi hacker groups such as Team ARXU, Team BD Cyber Ninja, and The Anonymous BD have escalated attacks on Indian sites, including those belonging to various chapters of ISKCON, the Hindu religious organisation currently at the centre of controversy …

DDoS attacks behind ongoing ChatGPT outages, confirms OpenAI: Report
1 year, 4 months ago

DDoS attacks behind ongoing ChatGPT outages, confirms OpenAI: Report

The Hindu  

OpenAI confirmed it has been addressing “periodic outages” due to denial-of-services attacks on its API and ChatGPT services. The confirmation from OpenAI comes days after the company addressed another ChatGPT outage that also took down its Application Programming Interface, partial outages and Dall-E elevated error rates. The threat actor further stated that OpenAI was targeted for its “cooperation with the …

Explained | Cyber attack on South African news site that reported on Modi during BRICS Summit
1 year, 6 months ago

Explained | Cyber attack on South African news site that reported on Modi during BRICS Summit

The Hindu  

The story so far: South African news portal, Daily Maverick, alleged it was hit by a DDoS cyberattack from India forcing it to block its entire domain of India to protect its site. The alleged attack was launched a day after the portal reported that Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, refused to disembark from his aircraft at Waterkloof Air Force …

Bangladesh Hacktivists Target India With DDoS Attacks, Data Breaches: Report
1 year, 7 months ago

Bangladesh Hacktivists Target India With DDoS Attacks, Data Breaches: Report

News 18  

A hacktivist group known as Mysterious Team Bangladesh has been linked to more than 750 distributed denial-of-service attacks and 78 website defacements since June 2022, primarily targeting government, financial, and transportation sector organisations with strong focus on India, a new report has shown. According to the cybersecurity firm Group-IB, the group emerged in 2020 but only began to garner global …

Government issues cybersecurity alert after Indonesian hacker group attacks 12,000 Indian websites – India TV
1 year, 11 months ago

Government issues cybersecurity alert after Indonesian hacker group attacks 12,000 Indian websites – India TV

India TV News  

According to a cybersecurity notice issued by the Centre, an Indonesian cyber attack group is purportedly targeting 12,000 government websites in India. According to the alert, the hacktivist organisation has also issued a list of government websites that it claims to be targeting, including state and federal government websites. Last year, a Malaysian hacktivist group hacked Indian government websites in …

Centre releases data on hacked govt websites, data breaches in 2022-23
2 years, 1 month ago

Centre releases data on hacked govt websites, data breaches in 2022-23

Live Mint  

In the years 2022–2023, 50 government websites have been hacked, said Ashwini Vaishnaw - the Union Minister for Communications, Electronics, and Information Technology. Vaishnaw added that there were six, seven and eight data breach events involving government organisations in the years 2020, 2021, and 2022, respectively, according to data recorded by CERT-In and provided to them. "CERT-In has further informed …

China opens another front, steps up cyberattacks that target India: Intel
4 years, 9 months ago

China opens another front, steps up cyberattacks that target India: Intel

Hindustan Times  

China has opened another front against India with sustained DDOS attacks on Indian information websites and the country’s financial payments system. Most of the attacks were traced back to the central Chinese city of Chengdu. The capital of Sichuan province, Chengdu is known for being the headquarters of the People’s Liberation Army’s Unit 61398, the Chinese military’s primary covert cyberwarfare …

BJP's official website comes under DDoS attack, goes offline; Congress' Divya Spandana mocks hack
6 years ago

BJP's official website comes under DDoS attack, goes offline; Congress' Divya Spandana mocks hack

Firstpost  

The website, www.bjp.org, was down on Tuesday morning and a webpage with a message saying Error 522 showed up in its place. The official website of the Bharatiya Janata Party came under the attack of a distributed denial-of-service on Monday — which is a malicious attempt to disrupt normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the …

1 government website hacked every second day. Here is why they are minefield for Bitcoins
6 years, 5 months ago

1 government website hacked every second day. Here is why they are minefield for Bitcoins

India Today  

Cyber security sleuths are scrambling to protect sensitive data and fix more than a 100 government websites that have been hacked in recent weeks across states for secret and unauthorised crypto currency mining, Mail Today has learnt. The challenges for cyber security can be understood from the fact that last year the Union Home Ministry informed Parliament that at least …

Attacks on the Internet keep getting bigger and nastier
8 years, 5 months ago

Attacks on the Internet keep getting bigger and nastier

LA Times  

Could millions of connected cameras, thermostats and kids’ toys bring the Internet to its knees? Jason Read, founder of the Internet performance monitoring firm CloudHarmony, owned by Gartner Inc., said his company tracked a half-hour-long disruption early Friday affecting access to many sites from the East Coast. Lance Cottrell, chief scientist for cybersecurity firm Ntrepid, said while DDoS attacks have …

DDoS Attacks: What Are They?
9 years, 2 months ago

DDoS Attacks: What Are They?

Wired  

You see them mentioned in the news all the time. DoS stands for "denial of service" and refers to an attack that overwhelms a system with data---most commonly a flood of simultaneous requests sent to a website to view its pages, causing the web server to crash or simply become inoperable as it struggles to respond to more requests than …

Cyber-attacks on India mostly from China, Pakistan, says Ravi Shankar Prasad
9 years, 7 months ago

Cyber-attacks on India mostly from China, Pakistan, says Ravi Shankar Prasad

Firstpost  

Cybercriminals from countries like Pakistan, China, Bangladesh and the US are mostly involved in hacking and launching attacks on computer networks of Indian organisations, Parliament was informed in New Delhi. Minister for Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad said attackers are compromising computer systems in different parts of the world and use masquerading techniques and hidden servers to hide …

The anatomy of a DDoS attack
12 years, 9 months ago

The anatomy of a DDoS attack

The Hindu  

Even as the debate on Internet censorship and government regulation of social media was hotting up, the recent move by some Internet service providers to block websites that allow peer-to-peer file sharing, has netizens up in arms. DDoS attacks are well-orchestrated ones on Web servers of a website, and on the domain name servers. DDoS attacks exploit this limitation by …

Online activists hit the streets
12 years, 9 months ago

Online activists hit the streets

The Hindu  

Online hackers collective Anonymous, that has gained global attention for its symbolism and high-profile tactics, made its public presence felt across the country on Saturday, as volunteers took to the streets to register their protests over growing concerns of Internet censorship. The ‘OpIndia' protest gained more traction in some cities than others — notably New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore — …

Govt seeks to protect websites from 9 June Anonymous attack
12 years, 9 months ago

Govt seeks to protect websites from 9 June Anonymous attack

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The Indian government is seeking to batten down the hatches against the 9 June cyber attack planned by the Anonymous Internet activist group over content censorship, besides seeking to track those said to be behind the campaign. The hacker group may also conduct defacement and launch distributed denial of services attacks against websites of government and private organization …

Reputed Websites Under Hacker Threat: CERT-In
12 years, 9 months ago

Reputed Websites Under Hacker Threat: CERT-In

Firstpost  

The agency has asked users to deploy adequate security systems to deal with attacks originating through DDoS. Websites of reputed government and private organisations are under threat from hackers, the Computer Emergency Response Team India has said, warning users to be extra cautious while using the Internet. The attacks may be targeted to different websites of reputed organisations,” CERT-In, the …

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