News Desk : dhakamirror.com
A government agency has informed all significant organizations, including information infrastructures, to take the required precautions to prevent Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) cyberattacks.
The attacks were discovered during routine monitoring by the Bangladesh e-Government Computer Incident Response Team (BGD e-Gov CIRT), which is in charge of safeguarding cybersecurity in the country, according to a press statement released on Saturday.
Project director of the BGD e-Gov CIRT and Director (operations) of the Digital Security Agency Tarique M. Barkatullah explained that DDoS is a type of cyberattack, which regularly targets a specific IT infrastructure from a wide botnet controlled by a cybercriminal to interrupt regular service delivery.
“TCP Push Flood, UDP Flood, TCP RST flood, TCP SYN Flood, TCP Window Size flood, IP fragment flood DDoS attack vectors are found in the DDoS cyberattacks,” he said in the press release.
Due to the emerging situation, BGD advised all authorities concerned to install or update anti-DDoS hardware and software and set proper anti-DDoS protection threshold limits to keep all important information infrastructure safe in Bangladesh as per the “Digital Security Protection Guidelines for Critical Information Infrastructure”.
