Who is behind the hacker attack on Italian airport websites
Between yesterday evening and this morning they hacked various Italian airport sites but also those of the Air Force and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They declare themselves against Israel and beyond. All the details about the Mysterious Team Bangladesh group
Activism, or rather hacktivism, towards the war between Israel and Hamas is also cyber. A group known as Mysterious Team Bangladesh has in fact targeted the sites of three Italian airports for our country's support for Israel.
THE ATTACK ON ITALY
Mysterious team Bangladesh, a group of hackers that has attracted attention in the past for attacks especially against Indian and Israeli sites, this time targeted three Italian airports: those of Aosta, Calabria and Bari.
The attacks, various agencies report, are of the Ddos type, or Distributed denial of service , and have caused slowdowns on the sites.
HACTIVISM
As always, in these moments of tension, there is also an increase in activity on the web, in which, among others, hacktivists – such as those of the Mysterious Team Bangladesh – participate, who carry forward a political message with their actions.
THE DECLARATION OF INTENT AGAINST ISRAEL, INDIA AND ATHEISTS
“Our group successfully attacked Israeli government websites to protest the killing of the Palestinian people. We work for humanity”, they claim on their website together with attacks on Indian websites to take revenge “for having abused the Prophet Muhammad (SW)”.
Mysterious Team Bangladesh also makes it known that part of their team is dedicated to finding and removing adult and atheist content on all social platforms.
WHO IS BEHIND IT
Mysterious Team Bangladesh calls itself “a hacker group based in Bangladesh.” It was founded in 2020 by some of their BD Hackers and their mission is “to protect the cyberspace of Bangladesh”.
PREVIOUS ATTACKS
However, where – if not in cyberspace – are there no borders? In fact, the group's work goes far beyond their country. Earlier today, in Europe, the team had already hit Sweden after the case of the destruction of a copy of the Quran, and the current situation in the Middle East has become the occasion for a new hacking campaign by the crew.
In the past he had also spoken out against the Iranian government for the death of Mahsa Amini; that of Myanmar , established with a coup d'état in February 2021, "for violating Bangladesh's sovereignty and inciting the country's border"; and against the government of the United Arab Emirates .
According to cybersecurity vendor Radware , Mysterious Team Bangladesh has carried out more than 750 DDoS attacks and 78 website defacements since June 2022.
THE ACCOUNT ON X
Their page on No one will be spared."
This morning's tweets show the results of their attacks against the Italian Air Force website (still unreachable at 1.32pm), the Naples international airport and those of Calabria, Bari, Aosta; while last night the sites of the Inter Press news agency, AeroItalia, Cnr, Bank of Italy, Agency for Digital Italy, Municipality of L'Aquila and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs were targeted.
THE CYBERSECURITY AGENCY
Since the beginning of the war on 7 October between Hamas and Israel, the level of attention of Italian cyber security has been raised. The Italian Cybersecurity Agency, as far as we know, has in fact alerted the subjects potentially affected by the offensive: airports and, more generally, providers of essential services.
THE EXPERT'S COMMENT
“The news of the opening of the Italian front in the context of the cyberwar which is also characterizing the conflict between Hamas and Israel only confirms how much this is a participatory war in the dimension of cyberspace, where forces animated by the ideological and religious nature inherent to the crisis act in progress. We are rapidly moving towards a clickwar, in which sympathizers are put in a position to act by groups actively organized in the field": this is the comment by Pierguido Iezzi, CEO of the security company Swascan, on the cyber attacks on websites in the Italian airport sector operated by the cyber group Mysterious Team Bangladesh. “The directives of hybrid warfare, already experienced during the conflict that has been affecting the heart of Europe for almost two years, are now being replicated with demonstration actions on Western countries with the aim of highlighting the cause for which we are fighting or to push the countries themselves to take a position in favor of a faction”, concludes the expert.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/cybersecurity/chi-ce-dietro-lattacco-hacker-ai-siti-degli-aeroporti-italiani/ on Wed, 25 Oct 2023 14:21:38 +0000.