Bangladeshi Hacker Group Targets Multiple Indian News Agencies

 

An update regarding the cyberattack on Alt News has brought up cybersecurity news in Indian media once more. After focusing on Indian news agency ANI News for a few hours, the threat actor group “Mysterious Team Bangladesh” has now listed the well-known Indian fact-checking website “Alt News” as its latest victim. 

The hacktivist group claims that the purported ANI News and Alt News cyberattacks are a part of their ongoing OpIndia23 campaign against the Indian media for allegedly inciting hatred and false information. 

ANI News is a news organisation with its main office in New Delhi. Mohammed Zubair and Pratik Sinha, two former IT engineers, launched the fact-checking website Alt News, a non-profit organisation in India. 

Both organisations’ websites were reachable at the time of writing. A number of cyberattacks on international targets included the claimed Alt News hack. 

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