Cyber Threat Actor: DangerPro

DangerPro, also known as Cyber‑71, is a Bangladeshi hacking collective that has been publicly identified in two separate website defacement incidents from 2015. The group operates under the aliases DangerPro and Cyber‑71 and is based in Bangladesh, as indicated by the sources describing its members as Bangladeshi hackers. Their activities are limited to defacing web pages and posting political messages, with no public evidence of malware deployment, data theft, or financial gain. The collective’s known actions involve altering the visible content of a target site while leaving underlying systems otherwise intact, and then using social media to circulate proof of the defacement.

Their targeting has included an educational institution and a private sector business, specifically the Dhaka University website in September 2015 and the contact page of Pizza Hut Israel’s official site in July 2015. In both cases the defacement served as a platform for political statements rather than for espionage or profit. The Dhaka University incident involved a protest against the value‑added tax imposed on private university tuition fees, while the Pizza Hut Israel defacement carried a message addressed to the Indian government alleging border killings of Bangladeshi citizens and declaring a cyber war against India. These messages demonstrate a disruption‑oriented objective aimed at drawing attention to grievances and exerting pressure through public visibility. No indication exists that the group seeks financial compensation, conducts espionage, or engages in persistent access beyond the defacement event.

The Dhaka University defacement saw the hackers replace the landing page with a notice criticizing the tuition‑fee tax, leave the rest of the site untouched, and later post screenshots of the alteration on Facebook, which prompted student reports to university authorities. The Pizza Hut Israel incident involved the alteration of the contact us page with a warning directed at India, after which the compromised page was redirected to the official Pizza Hut Israel Facebook page, disrupting normal web service while preserving the defacement content for viewers. Both operations were claimed by the group under the handle Cyber‑71, and in each case the actors left a clear attribution to their Bangladeshi origin and political motive. Authorities in Bangladesh reported identifying the individuals behind the Dhaka University hack but were unable to effect arrests due to unresolved location details at the time. No further publicly attributed operations have been documented for DangerPro or Cyber‑71 beyond these two defacement campaigns.