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The website for Bondi Markets was allegedly taken down in a DDoS attack, making the organsiation the latest victim of a wider DDoS campaign against Australian companies.
Bondi Markets is a physical market that takes place near Sydney’s Bondi Beach, with stalls selling clothing, jewelry, food, homewares, art and more.
The RipperSec threat group posted on its Telegram, claiming that at around 8pm AEDT (6pm SGT) on December 11, it brought down the website of Bondi Markets.
The morning after (December 12) Cyber Daily was able to verify that the site was back up. The amount of time the site was allegedly down is currently unverified. Cyber Daily has reached out to Bondi Markets for more information.
The latest incident follows a number of DDoS attacks against Australian organisations by a number of threat groups that appear to have joined forces.
Last week, Cyber Daily observed a number of websites defaced by the DXPLOIT threat group. In their defacement message, the group named a number of other threat actors in hashtags including NoName057(16), RipperSec, Anonymous Guys, and Al Ahad.
Earlier this month, Anonymous Guys announced it was forming a new hacktivist alliance with Al Ahad and DXPLOIT.
According to FalconFeeds.io, the groups have increased their activity on organisations from a number of countries, including Australia.
Additionally, last month, FalconFeeds.io also noted that DXPLOIT was “collaborating” with RipperSec to form “OpsAustralia” to launch attacks on Australian organisations.
And again, three months ago, FalconFeeds.io also noted an alliance that formed between DXPLOIT and NoName057(16).
Hacktivists from these groups and others were responsible for more than 60 attacks on Australian organisations and their websites last month, causing widespread disruption.
The attacks began on 1 November, with several a day happening at times throughout the month.
Activity peaked on 25 November, when six victims were targeted, with many more occurring in the following days, with the highest number of attacks occurring on 30 November, when 13 organisations were attacked.
Forty-one per cent of those attacks were aimed at government institutions, but other sectors targeted included legal services, hospitality, and business services. Thirty-nine websites and organisations were attacked.
The bulk of the attacks were carried out by hacking group NoName057(16), alongside the Cyber Army of Russia Reborn and Z-Pentest. These groups targeted victims’ websites with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, taking several offline for a considerable amount of time, including the Coroners Court of Victoria and the Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Other victims included the city of Palmerston in the Northern Territory, the Australian Industry and Defence Network, and the Housing Industry Association.
Z-Pentest also claimed to have breached the operational technology environment of a Victorian sewage pumping station and the cooling system of an NSW vegetable warehouse.
These groups – all pro-Russian – were motivated in part by the recent donation of 14 rigid hull boats to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, worth $14 million.
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