Executive Summary
Between 7 June and 7 July 2026, ThreatIntel BD's automated collection surfaced 1,077 Bangladesh-nexus security events. Two themes define the period: the large-scale exposure of citizen and workforce credentials through commodity infostealers, and sustained ransomware pressure, with two Bangladesh-based IT firms posted to an extortion leak site within a single week. Harvested credentials and leaked source-control secrets are materially lowering the barrier to the initial access that ransomware operators depend on.
Key Findings
- Credentials for high-value government and financial services, including workforce accounts tied to the national identity and law-enforcement services, were identified in infostealer logs.
- Two Bangladesh-based IT firms were listed on a ransomware extortion site within a single week, and a Havoc C2 node associated with hands-on-keyboard intrusion operated on domestic infrastructure.
- Public version-control configurations leaked live GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket credentials — including one on a government-operated domain — granting direct access to source code and deployment pipelines.
- Multiple internet-facing edge appliances remained exploitable via known, publicly weaponised CVEs.
Credential Exposure — Critical
Analysis of infostealer log collections identified harvested credentials for several of Bangladesh's most sensitive public and financial services. These represent data already in circulation, not a prospective risk.
- National identity service — 107,286 user records
- National railway operator — 87,433
- daraz.com.bd — 81,514
- Income-tax portal — 63,762
- e-Passport service — 62,099
- teletalk.com.bd — 61,588
- National police service — 37,677 (including 285 workforce accounts)
- bkash.com — 29,214
RedLine, Lumma, and Raccoon families account for the majority of observed infections. The presence of workforce credentials for the national identity authority and the police service is the most consequential finding: these offer potential paths into back-end administrative systems and are precisely the kind of initial access ransomware operators seek.
Ransomware — High
Ransomware activity directly affected Bangladeshi organisations this period, with two locally based IT firms — Divine IT and Lockers IT — posted to the nova group's extortion leak site within a single week (15 and 21 June). That both victims are software and IT-services providers is the salient point: compromise of such a vendor can cascade to numerous downstream clients, making these incidents a supply-chain concern rather than isolated events.
A Havoc command-and-control node was also observed on Bangladeshi infrastructure (202[.]73[.]4[.]137). Havoc is a post-exploitation framework increasingly adopted by ransomware affiliates for hands-on-keyboard access, and its domestic presence indicates active intrusion tooling in-country. In parallel, BGD e-GOV CIRT issued advisory guidance on 5 July warning that INC Ransomware has expanded its cross-platform capabilities to target enterprise and mainframe infrastructure across the Asia-Pacific region.
Leaking Secrets and Vulnerable Infrastructure — High
Publicly accessible .git configurations exposed live version-control credentials for GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket repositories — including one on a government-operated municipal domain — handing an attacker direct access to source code and, in several cases, embedded deployment and database credentials. These should be treated as active compromises pending rotation.
Separately, several internet-facing edge appliances remained exploitable via known CVEs with public exploit code: Cisco ASA (CVE-2020-3259), Sophos user portal (CVE-2022-1040), F5 BIG-IP (CVE-2022-1388), and exposed Vite development servers (CVE-2025-30208). Of 435 total exposure events, 29 were assessed critical, concentrated on Link3, AmberIT, and Agni Systems networks.
Recommendations
- Validate offline, immutable backups and rehearse recovery; proactively hunt for post-exploitation frameworks such as Havoc and other hands-on-keyboard indicators that typically precede ransomware deployment.
- Enforce credential resets and session invalidation for any workforce account associated with the exposed government and financial domains; treat affected employee credentials as compromised.
- Rotate all leaked version-control tokens immediately, remove publicly accessible .git directories, and audit affected repositories for further embedded secrets.
- Patch internet-facing edge appliances against the identified CVEs, all of which have public exploit code available.
- Establish continuous monitoring for Bangladesh-nexus credentials and organizations surfacing in infostealer marketplaces and ransomware leak sites.
Assessment
ThreatIntel BD assesses with moderate-to-high confidence that the combination of widespread credential exposure and active ransomware targeting presents the most immediate risk to Bangladeshi public-sector, financial, and IT-services organisations. Harvested credentials and leaked source-control secrets materially lower the barrier to the initial access ransomware operators require, and the domestic Havoc C2 indicates that hands-on-keyboard intrusion capability is already present in-country. Confidence rests on consistent, multi-source collection and is tempered by the automated nature of the data, which reflects indicators as observed rather than independently confirmed intrusions.
Sourcing: aggregated from Threat Intel BD collection feeds — LeakIX, infostealer log indexes, ransomware.live, ThreatFox, and BGD e-GOV CIRT advisories. Indicators are rendered defanged.