Was Biman airlines hit by ransomware?

Biman airlines was listed by the Moneymessage ransomware operation (Bangladesh), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Moneymessage ransomware group?

Moneymessage is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Biman airlines breach?

Moneymessage published data attributed to Biman airlines. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Biman airlines

Claimed by Moneymessage · listed 3 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 29, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Moneymessage
Status: Data leaked
Country: Bangladesh
Sector: Transportation & Logistics
Listed on leak site: Mar 29, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Biman Bangladesh Airlines is the national flag carrier airline of Bangladesh, operating international passenger and cargo services to destinations across Asia and Europe, as well as domestic routes within Bangladesh. It is a state-owned enterprise headquartered at Balaka Bhaban, Kurmitola, Dhaka. The airline is one of the largest employers in the Bangladeshi aviation sector.

Industry: Commercial Aviation
Address: Balaka Bhaban, Kurmitola, Dhaka 1229, Bangladesh
Employees: 5000-10000
Founded: 1972

Attack summary

Severity: high — The disclosure status is 'data_published', indicating actual data has been released by the group. As a national flag carrier, any exfiltrated data likely includes passenger PII, operational data, and potentially sensitive government-related cargo/travel records, representing significant business and regulatory exposure even without a confirmed data volume.

The MoneyMessage ransomware group claims to have attacked Biman Bangladesh Airlines and has published data as indicated by the disclosed status, though the leak post itself does not specify whether encryption, exfiltration, or both occurred, nor does it detail the volume or nature of data stolen.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Airline operational data
Passenger records (potential)
Cargo service records (potential)
Internal business documents (potential)

What the group claims

Biman Bangladesh Airlines (Bengali) is the national flag carrier airline of Bangladesh. The airline provides international passenger and cargo services to Asia and Europe, as well as major domestic routes inside Bangladesh.

Sources

Victim sitebiman-airlines.com
Leak posthttp://blogvl7tjyjvsfthobttze52w36wwiz34hrfcmorgvdzb6hikucb7aqd.onion/news.php?id=4

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Moneymessage

Moneymessage is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors globally. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major security agencies, detailed information about their origin and affiliations remains largely unknown, though their targeting patterns suggest they may operate as a smaller independent operation rather than a large-scale RaaS model. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach across healthcare, business services, public sector, government, and financial organizations, with their 29 documented victims spanning geographically diverse regions including the United States, Italy, Argentina, Bangladesh, and Russia, though specific attack methodologies and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms. Notable campaigns and high-profile attacks attributed to Moneymessage have not been widely reported by established security researchers or law enforcement agencies, likely due to the group's relatively recent emergence and smaller scale of operations compared to more prominent ransomware families. The group appears to remain active as of available reporting, though comprehensive analysis of their current operational status is limited by the lack of detailed public documentation from authoritative sources such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity firms. The group has been linked to 34 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 29, 2023; most recent post July 9, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: money message.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 29, 2023Biman airlines listed by Moneymessageon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Moneymessage

Moneymessage has been linked to 34 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation & Logistics sector, which has 180 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Biman airlines is reported in Bangladesh, a country with 3 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Moneymessage means Biman airlines appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Monitor for the data appearing on Moneymessage's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.