A number of major sites have had theirDNS settingshacked todayand many visitors redirected to a Turkish hacker’s website.
Websites including The Daily Telegraph, UPS, Vodafone, National Geographic, The Register and others are all currently experiencing disruption accordingZone-H, a site that monitors website defacements.
A screenshot of where users are being redirected to can be found below (viaPaul Mutton). The headline message in Turkish reads “Turkish Security, Come to Papa.”
The IP Address for the rogue site is 68.68.20.116. if you have a firewall in place you can instruct it to block that particular IP.
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It’s worth noting that the websites themselves have not been hacked but the DNS settings have. The DNS settings essentially tell that domain names which IP addresses to load, and these have been altered to point to the IP address of the site below.
As security siteSophos notes, because of the way changes to DNS settings work, not every visitor is affected and it may be some time before any fixes made are visible to all visitors. That being the case, one site, The Register, has taken the step ofshutting down accessto its site as a precaution.
According to a brief interview withThe Guardian, the hackers gained access by hacking domain name registrars Netnames.co.uk, Ascio and “some other ones.”
The group go onto say the motivations behind the hack are purely for the amusement and challenge of infiltrating big domains:
The hackers say they are also responsible for the South Korean domain name registrarhacking in August.
More to Follow.
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