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BANGLADESH WARNED OF CYBER-ATTACK ON 15 AUGUST

Staff Correspondent
Dhaka
Published: 04 Aug 2023, 12: 07


A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this
illustration picture taken on 13 May 2017Reuters file photo

A group of hackers have threatened a ‘storm' of cyber-attacks in Bangladeshi
cyberspace. The hackers set 15 August as probable date to hit the cyberspace of
the country. Bangladesh e-Government Computer Incident Response Team (BGD e-GOVT
CIRT) has issued an alert in the wake of the threat.

BGD e-GOVT CIRT on Friday issued a press release of the warning undersigned by
the project’s director Mohammad Saiful Alam Khan. The press release says a group
of hackers on 31 July issued warning that the cyberspace of Bangladesh would be
attacked on 15 August.

“Bangladesh Government's Computer Incident Response Team (BGD e-GOV CIRT) is
releasing this alert to warn critical information infrastructures (CII), banks
and financial institutions, health care and all sorts of government and private
organizations of the possible conducted cyber-attacks by the groups that may
disrupt IT operations and businesses. All organisations are advised to be on
alert for small to medium-scale cyber-attacks originating from the subject
hacktivist groups and to take the required precautions to protect their
infrastructures,” the press release reads.



The press release said the hackers identify themselves as ‘Hacktivist’ and have
been targeting Bangladesh and Pakistan. BGD e-GOVT CIRT said it, in a recent
research, identified several similar group of hackers who attack sites of
Bangladeshi organisations frequently.

The screenshot provided by the BGD e-GOVT CIRT in the press release shows that
the hackers claimed themselves to be Indian.

BGD e-GOVT CIRT mentions some of the recent notable cyber-attacks targeting
Bangladesh. These include a hacker group claiming a cyber-attack on payment
gateways, law enforcement agencies and the banking sector in Bangladesh on 1
August. . On 3 July, a hacker group claimed a Distributed Denial-of-Service
(DDoS) attack on Bangladeshi transportation service making the website
unavailable for an hour. Also, on July 3, a hacker group claimed that they had
attacked Bangladeshi transport services for 1 hour. On 27 June, a hacker group
defaced the website of a Bangladesh government college and shared a web archive
supporting their claims. The similar thing was done on the site of a health
sector organisation on 24 June.


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CIRT requested all organisations in Bangladesh to take the following measures to
ensure their infrastructures’ security: Ensure strict network and user activity
monitoring 24/7, especially during non-office hours, and watch out for any
indication of data exfiltration; ensure implementing load balancer solutions to
ensure that no single server is overwhelmed during an attack, deploy a Web
Application Firewall to analyze incoming HTTP/HTTPS traffic and filter out
malicious requests and traffic patterns commonly associated with DDoS attacks;
ensure vital services such as DNS, NTP as well as network middleboxes are
securely configured and are not exposed on the internet; validate and sanitize
all user input to prevent malicious code injection (e.g., SQL injection,
Cross-Site Scripting) that could lead to web defacement; perform regular backups
of your website's content and database, enforce HTTPS on your website with
SSL/TLS encryption; keep all web server software, content management systems
(CMS), plugins, and other software components up-to-date with the latest
security patches; configure and harden web application as per OWASP guideline
and report or inform BGD e-GOV CIRT regarding the detection of IOCs and/ or any
suspicious activities you observe within your environment.

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