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New Wave of Burmese Hackers Behind Thai Website Attacks

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February 25, 2016
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Burmese hackers say they have attacked Thai government websites since early January and stolen data, part of a long-running, broader campaign against those critical of Burma’s government.

The Blink Hacker Group said in Facebook posts and in an email interview that its attacks were in retaliation for Thailand sentencing two Burmese to death for the murder of two British backpackers late last year.

The group said it posted online data it took from websites of the Thai prison agency and justice ministry, saying databases from any government websites it hacked “should be made public.”

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Thai police said they had yet to determine who was behind the attacks, but denied those responsible were from Burma.

Dechnarong Suthicharnbancha, a spokesperson for the Royal Thai Police, said there had been little impact from the attacks on police websites. “It was only a nuisance. We got the websites running again with no trouble at all.”

The attacks do, though, mark an escalation in computer hacking since Burma opened up to foreign investment and ended decades of military rule in 2011, researchers say.

Nationalist attacks on other countries’ websites are not new, but those by Burma-based groups have increased and have also hit domestic media perceived to be critical of government policies or supportive of Burma’s Muslim Rohingya minority.

The Blink Hacker Group said it targeted independent media websites The Irrawaddy and Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) “because we believe that media should not (be) use(d) for propaganda.”

Spokesmen for both media sites confirmed they had been hacked.

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Tord Lundstroem, a Swedish researcher who works for a company that hosts independent media websites including The Irrawaddy, said domain hosting records linked the Blink Hacker Group and others to Rangoon-based companies selling web design and security services, and the hacker groups’ Facebook activity indicated informal links to people with military backgrounds.

Lundstroem said hackers were better organized and more sophisticated, noting that servers and email accounts at Irrawaddy and DVB had been penetrated around the time of last November’s landmark democratic election in Burma—though he said these attacks were not the work of the Blink Hacker Group.

The Blink Hacker Group said it previously had been ready to work with Burma’s military to help “build a better Internet” but had received no response. It said none of its 20 members were in the military.

Min Ko Ko of Creatigon, a web development company, said he belonged to a group called Myanmar Hackers Unite4M and was founder of Myanmar Security Forum, but was not a hacker. The founder of IT firm Cyber Wings Asia, Yan Naing Myint, said his company had provided hosting for the Blink Hacker Group’s website, but neither he nor his business were involved in the group’s activities or in hacking.

Burmese government spokesman Ye Htut laughed off claims that the military had cyber war units, saying “I think people sometimes overestimate the capacity of the Burmese military.”

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