Pakistani hackers deface Israeli pages for BBC, Bing, Coke, Groupon, Intel.

[Agent_47]

Pakistani hackers going by the names 1337, H4x0rL1f3, ZombiE_KsA, and Invectus, have defaced multiple pages on high profile Web sites. All the hacks appear to be affecting the .co.il and org.il domains, and not everyone is seeing them, suggesting this could be a DNS attack.

Some sites like MSN have their Israeli web sites hosted on their .com domain at il.msn.com, meaning this hack won’t do much, but for others like Groupon, this is indeed their main site:



According to Zone-H, 31 sites were attacked. Of those, a few are unaffected (the msn.org.il site redirects to the .com site just fine) or are just down (sprite.org.il for example).

That being said, at the time of writing, at least 26 pages were defaced for me (but not for another TNW staff member). Here’s a running list in alphabetical order of those sites: Amazon Unbox, BBC, Bing, Citibank, CNN, Coca Cola, Coke, Intel, Intel AppUp, Intel Atom, Live 1, Live 2, Mastercard, Microsoft Store, MSN, NBC Uni, PayPass, Pantene, Phillips, Solar Winds, Passport, and Xbox Ignite, Xbox Fusion, Xbox 360, Windows, and Windows Live.

This does not appear to have anything to do with Anonymous, although the hackers appear to have the same motive: make Israel pay for its attack on Gaza. Here’s an excerpt:

I am writing on the behalf of all Pakistani and all Muslims. DAMN you ISREAL. So, what you reap from that war except the destruction and devastation of your life!! You only made a Palestinian generation more stronger, more ruthless and more valor!

The hackers also mock a statement from Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, who recently said the country’s security systems have been very effective at blocking cyberattacks. He told the media on Sunday that 44 million hacking attempts have been made on Israeli government Web sites since Wednesday and that so far only one was taken down, but was up and running after 10 minutes of downtime. Steinitz was quoted by Reuters as saying:

The ministry’s computer division will continue to block the millions of cyber attacks. We are enjoying the fruits of our investment in recent years in developing computerized defence systems.

On Friday, we reported that Anonymous attacked over 650 Israeli sites, including wiping databases of at least two sites, defacing many, and leaking email addresses and passwords. On Sunday, we wrote about how the hacktivist group claimed to have leaked over 3,000 names, home addresses, and phone numbers of donors supporting Israel.

This cyber war apparently just got bigger. We’ll be keeping you posted.

Pakistani Hackers Deface Israeli Web Pages

 

[Safriz]

and he is advertising his email address too

 

[Armstrong]

Cyber Jihad !

 

[jnd3x0]

Very good move, Put hurdles the way you can. Stop Israeli barbaric terrorist to kill children of GAZA

 

[A.Rafay]

Cyber Jihad !

Cyber Talibans !!

 

[SQ8]

Wonder how they end up writing injection codes when they cant even spell right???

 

[Leader]

bloody hackers taking down websites os savage israelis

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

Pakistani hackers should aim for higher, like bringing down Israeli drones/UAVs , compromising the command networks etc.

 

[indian_jigar]

Wonder how they end up writing injection codes when they cant even spell right???

Doesnt mean that the hackers are Pakistanis. In most Western Countries, you can go to craigslist and hire hackers

Pakistani hackers should aim for higher, like bringing down Israeli drone, compromising the command networks etc.

Those would be pretty close to impossible to hack

 

[fawwaxs]

Not proud of this .. ! that means u dont have enough content to counter their content !!!!

 

[fawwaxs]

if you can do this then be bit more useful rather then just hacking pages

 

[Safriz]

Good move.. Israel think themselves as invincible gods..
This trivial move will show them they are not invincible...

 

[Night_Raven]

At the end of the day , nothing's gonna change ... such childish acts are as utterly useless ...

 

[somebozo]

Good move.. Israel think themselves as invincible gods..
This trivial move will show them they are not invincible...

With Iron Dome and all the awesome firepower toys, they need not to worry about some random websites which are not even owned by Israelis!

 

[SHAMK9]

why does his id says KSA at the end? Pakistani living in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.