// archives

hacktivism

This tag is associated with 3 posts

Baidu.com the Latest Victim of Iranian CyberArmy

By Prefect ⋅ January 11, 2010 ⋅ 15 comments

A group called the Iranian Cyber Army has, fresh off the heels of their DNS attack on Twitter last month, hijacked the domain of Chinese search engine Baidu.com. Baidu is one of the most popular web sites in the world, a NASDAQ 100 multimedia company headquartered in Beijing that serves up over 740 million web pages along with music and video. The company employs over 6,000 people, has a 77% market share for search in China, and has annual revenue of about $200mm. For about three hours they were an advertising platform for a hacktivist group supporting the fundamentalist Islamic regime in Iran.

We shall strike if the leader orders: Twitter Struck by Iranian Cyber Army

By Prefect ⋅ December 17, 2009 ⋅ 11 comments

At some time around 10pm on Thursday, users going to Twitter.com were served the page below with a banner reading “This site has been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army”. Also, mowjcamp.org, a site for supporters of Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh a candidate who ran against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the 2009 Iranian presidential election, has been serving a similar defacement since at least December 16th and continues to do so. The motive appears to be activism in support of Iran’s current Islamic regime. The attack vector was a bad actor using an id and password assigned to Twitter to log in to the administrative portal of managed DNS service provider Dyn.

NSA.gov Site Defacement

By Prefect ⋅ October 13, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

It appears, according to the site defacement archive hosted at Zone-H, that on or around October 5th an NSA web site application was the victim of an SQL injection exploit resulting in a web site defacement. A web application loading a list of recruitment events at colleges was compromised on the careers section of nsa.gov.

—