Mysterious Team Bangladesh targeting Indian govt servers

On Sept. 22, cybersecurity experts reported they have discovered a hacktivist group from Bangladesh that is targeting the Indian government's websites and servers.

Websites belonging to governments of Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Punjab and Tamil Nadu were affected.

The group called Mysterious Team Bangladesh (MTB) 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, according to the team from cyber-security firm CloudSEK.

The members of the group primarily reside in the Chittagong area of Bangladesh and either study in college or have recently graduated. Hacktivism appears to be their predominant motivation and the group majorly operates and communicates via Facebook, Telegram and Twitter.

Cybersecurity researchers said:

Through meticulous analysis and profiling of multiple groups, it can be rightly concluded that such hacktivist groups collaborate among each other excessively to conduct nefarious attacks, DDoS being the primary one, followed by defacing attacks.

One of the co-founders of Mysterious Team Bangladesh has been recognised as Taskin Ahmmed.

The rest of the group primarily consists of students or recent graduates between the age of 20 to 25 years that previously operated under hacker organisations, like Elite Force 71, Bangladesh Cyber Anonymous Team, and Taskin Vau.

In the same time, Anonymous hacker collective have claimed to be behind attacks on several websites affiliated with the Iranian government amid protests following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini.