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State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak stated Tuesday (30 July), Hackers have carried out more than 50,000 cyberattacks in several rounds in the past 10 days to take control of important government websites during the quota reform protests.
He also added, after an emergency meeting on cyber security at Bangladesh Computer Council that The hackers particularly targeted eight government websites to cause damage, but no website was completely hacked and there was no incident of stealing data from any website
However, They used Domain Name System or DNS and diverted users to other pages containing messages from the hackers claiming to hack the website, according to him.
The state minister said: “Cyberattacks are carried out all the time as the hackers try to hack websites of organisations under national security. They attack banks and financial institutions to steal money.
He said the use of virtual private networks, or VPNs, to bypass security measures that have been in place to block social media has slowed down the internet all over the country.
VPN use has increased by 5,000 percent in this period, Palak said, citing technical people.
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