At least three websites of Thai state agencies were hacked by a group of hackers believed to be from Tunisia, who claimed that they were doing so for Muslim people in Myanmar.

On Sunday night, 23 August 2015, three websites of Thai public agencies namely, http://www.lamphun.go.th/ of the administration of the northern province of Lamphun, http://www.msup.msu.ac.th/about_us.htm of Mahasarakham University’s publishing house of the northern province of Mahasarakham, inclduing, the websit of Lamlukka Hospital of Pathum Thani Province, http://llkhospital.com/news/index.php, were hacked by a group of hackers who call themselves ‘Fallaga Group’.

The hackers claimed that they are a group of Tunisian hackers and reasoned that they were doing it ‘just for our Muslims in Burma’.

The main webpage of the three websites went blank between 3-4 am on Monday.

At 7:30 am on Monday, 24 August 2015, three other websites of the public administrations of Tak, Sing Buri, and Sa Kaeo Province also went blank, but there is no confirmation whether the later three websites were hacked by the same group or not.

The Lamphun provincial government’s website after being hacked by Fallaga Team on Sunday night, 23 August 2015

On the the website of Lamphun provincial government, where the most detailed message from the hackers appeared on the webpage, it says “HACKED BY FALLAG GASSRINI & DR LAMOUCHI TUNISIAN CYBER RESISTANCE FALLAGA TEAM!...”.

The additional message on the Laphun government website reads “Hello World ! This website has been hacked by FALLAG GASSRINI and DR LAMOUCHI Tunisian cyber resistance Alfallaga team ... so admin don't worry this is just a message and you can reset your website ... so our message not just for the admin it's for all the world you can see the background picture and you will understand and click at the button below to read our full message.”

Before the hacked websites went blank, the hackers posted many pictures of Tibetan monks performing religious ceremonies for people who lost their lives during the April 2010 earthquake in Tibet, which were shared virally on the internet as pictures of Muslim people killed by Buddhist monks.

At 4 am on Monday, the lamphon government website went blanked. An hour before, Lamlukka Hospital website went blackout with a message reads “hacked by Fallaga Team” while, at around the same time, the webpage of Mahasarakham University’s publishing, also met the same faith with a message showed on its page reads “hacked by Tunisian Fallaga Team just for our Muslims in Burma”.

The website of of Mahasarakham University’s publishing house after being hacked

According to “THE MEMRI CYBER & JIHAD LAB”, a website that monitors the activities of cyber jihadists, Muslim fighters, the Fallaga Team is a group of Islamic hackers who in 2013 hacked a Danish website that supports LGBT rights, Sabaah.dk . However, the hackers claimed that they are not involved with ISIS, the Islamic State Movement.
The group took their name from a Tunisian militant group who fought against the French colonialists.

In June 2013, Vice News conducted an interviewed with a person identified as “DR. X L”, one of the members of Fallaga Team via skype. The interviewee revealed that there are about 60 members in the group aged between 18-32 years-old. He mentioned that he was introduced to the idea of ‘Al Jihad Électronique’, electronic jihad, since 2007 and joined the Fallaga group in 2012.

The hacker who was then 19 years-old told Vice News that on 7 April 2013 the group carried out an online attack titled ‘Storm Attack 3’ on Israel, hacking 6,000 facebook accounts and releasing credit card information of 14,000 Israelis, including, attacking the DNS system in Israel.

According to Techworm.net, the Fallaga Team in January 2015 joined other electronic jihadists to carry out an operation call #OpFrance, attacking over 19,000 websites in France after an unidentified group of hackers in France carried out an online operation called #OpCharlieHebdo to report on the suspects of the Charlie Hebdo massacre on 7 January 2015, which took 12 lives.

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