by CIRT Team
Enhancing Situational Awareness on Emerging Cyber Threats
The Bangladesh Government’s Computer Incident Response Team (BGD e-GOV CIRT) carries out its primary mission of safeguarding the nation’s cyberspace through proactive management of computer security incidents and related activities. This mission involves close collaboration with international organizations and entities to effectively mitigate risks. Our goal is to maintain a continuous state of vigilance and preparedness, both in anticipation of potential incidents and in response...
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by CIRT Team
UPDATE ON SITUATIONAL ALERT
August 8, 2023 This report serves as an update to the ‘SITUATIONAL ALERT ON CYBER THREATS’ issued on 4th August. It provides an Indicator of Compromise (IOC) list which organizations may use for their preventive security measures. For the full document click here
by CIRT Team
Honorable Secretary of ICT Division takes a glimpse over BGD e-GOV CIRT
It was a pleasure to meet Mr. Md. Shamsul Arefin, the recently appointed Secretary to the ICT Division. Mr. Abu Sayed Md. Kamruzzaman NDC, Director General, Digital Security Agency; Mr. Ranajit Kumar, Executive Director (Grade-1), Bangladesh Computer Council, and other high authorities were in his company during the visit. The CIRT team had the opportunity to briefly go over their projects and successes.
Worok: A New Cyber Espionage Group Targeting Private and Local Government Entities Mostly in Asia
A new cyber espionage threat group that has been previously unknown named Worok and has been observed using undocumented tools targeting private and local government entities mostly in Asia. Based on the report by ESET, the group has been active for at least 2020 and observed a significant break in operation from 2021-05 to 2022-01, but in 2022-02, their operation resumed, targeting an energy company, and a public...
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Researchers Uncover a New Metador APT Targeting Telcos, ISPs, and Universities.
Executive Summary SentinelLabs researchers uncovered a never-before-seen advanced threat actor we’ve dubbed ‘Metador’. Metador primarily targets telecommunications, internet service providers, and universities in several countries in the Middle East and Africa. The operators are highly aware of operations security, managing carefully segmented infrastructure per victim, and quickly deploying intricate countermeasures in the presence of security solutions. Metador’s attack chains are designed to bypass native security...
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Palo Alto Recognizes Vulnerability Impacting PAN-OS® (CVE-2022-0028)
Global Critical Infrastructure Potentially Vulnerable To Reflected Amplification-Based Denial-Of-Service (RDoS) Attacks Introduction Over the past few weeks, Cyble Research & Intelligence Labs has observed the active exploitation of a recently discovered vulnerability found in the Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS operating system that runs the firewalls and could allows a remote Threat Actor (TA) to conduct reflected and amplified TCP denial-of-service (RDoS) attacks against the their...
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by CIRT Team
DECLARATION 2017 ON STRENGTHENING CYBERSECURITY
ENDORSED AT THE INTERNATIONAL CYBERSECURITY CONFERENCE HELD ON 9 MARCH 2017 The participants of the International cybersecurity conference meeting at Bangladesh Computer Council in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 9 March 2017, REAFFIRMING the commitments set out in the ‘Vision 2021’ to build Digital Bangladesh and transform Bangladesh into a fast developing Middle Income Country by 2021 and to mainstream ICTs as a pro-poor tool to eradicate...
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