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.
Mysterious Team shared the hashtags "opindia23," "counterattack," and "OpTerrorismCountry" along with the Telegram message. The group has accounts on several social media networks and has 1,283 Telegram subscribers.
The bio for the gang on its Twitter account, where they frequently discuss the specifics of their attacks and victims, reads, "We are cyber warriors of Bangladesh."
Along with articles on hacking and cyberattacks, the group also publishes the names of other hackers. A name that came up was "_barbby," who according to his biography is a journalist and a human rights advocate. There were two hashtags on the profile: OpIsrael and FreePalestine.
In the bio of another hacker, YourAnonRiots, it was said, "Our mission is global peace." The profile's hashtag was HackThePlanet, which appears to be the case in light of the hacking attacks on numerous government and other organisation websites.
Your Anon Story, MCA Ops, and Saudi Exile were the other hackers that had been identified.
In the past 24 hours, the Mysterious Team Bangladesh group has also listed TV7 Israel News, Uniurdu, an Urdu-language news website, and Univarta, a Hindi-language news website, as victims.
Furthermore, the hacktivist group also targeted the website of The Press Trust of India.
Along with saying "Expect Us," the organisation also declared that it had attacked the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team.
The Mysterious Team appears to be a sizable group made up of numerous hackers that use system weaknesses to get access.
But nothing is known about their method of attack other than the fact that they effectively shut down the systems and publish screenshots of their hacks on their various social media platforms.