BGD e-GOV CIRT, the government’s cyber issues watchdog, has advised to be cautious about cyber threats not cyber risks. And since the cyber threat is a regular occurrence all over the world, the Project Director (PD) of CIRT Engineer Md. Saiful Alam Khan has advised every CIA to be always alert.
He said that in the threat of cyberattack on important institutions of Bangladesh on August 15 by various hacker groups, DDos attacks have been detected on the websites of 12 public and private institutions of the country. Therefore, the cyber engineer commented that he is not sure about the claims made by the hacker groups of attacking the sites of 20 to 25 organizations. He said that no hacking incident happened in Bangladesh during this time.
He said that the CIRT is working on the websites of organizations that are under threat of attack. The sites of 6 organizations were confirmed to be victims of the attack.
It is worth noting that, due to the ‘cyber storm’ of August 15, the national identity card section and various Internet-based services of Bangladesh Bank were closed for several hours.