Cyber Attack on the Ministry of Rural Development & Food

The website of the Ministry of Rural Development & Food hackers targeted, causing a big headache to the competent government officials, creating a climate of concern as the state websites have recently received several cyber-attacks.

The violation was found on a website reporting an attack abroad and more specifically in the internal link of the Ministry of Rural Development at http://www.minagric.gr/images/fighter.gif.

The attack seems to belong to the category of “defacement” which is a kind of “vandalism” of a website by changing the content of the site. Usually this happens when hackers want to cover something bigger, which is running in the background. This attack seems to be preferred by hackers when they want to attack politicians or big websites.

The “hacker Fighter Anas” claimed responsibility for the attack and is believed to be of Bangladeshi origin and supported by Royal Battler BD, Bangladesh’s largest hacking community.

The ministry is counting the losses while the attack is characterized by experts as “moderate risk”.

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