Google Website Hijacked by Pakistani Hackers
The Bangladesh domain belonging to Google is the
latest to become the victim of hackers, as a group of attackers
apparently coming from Pakistan managed to deface the search engine page
and post their own message on the site.
Hackers who are part of a group called Team Pak
Cyber Attackers hijacked the Google Bangladesh search engine domain and
posted a message that taunts the security systems put in place by
Google.
As HackRead
notes, the breach was mostly possible with DNS hijacking, which was the
same method that other hackers turned to in the past to disrupt other
Google websites, including the Vietnamese homepage.
In
this latest hack, the attackers posted a message on the Google
Bangladesh page that included the Pakistan Zindabad slogan, which
translates to Long Live Pakistan.
“Struck by Faisal 1337. Google Bangladesh Stamped by
Team Pak Cyber Attackers. Security is an illusion. Pakistan Zindabad,”
the full message posted on the Google website read.
Google has obviously moved very fast to restore
access to its website, so everything’s back to normal now. It’s not
clear, however, how long the defaced website remained available for
visitors.
This isn’t the first time when Bangladesh hackers
are targeting high-profile websites and similar cases happened last year
as well when websites belonging to Google and Microsoft were
compromised through DNS hijacking. Google and MSN domains based in the
Pitcairn Islands were defaced by a different group of hackers who posted
a message similar to the one published today.
“Google Pitcairn Island hacked by Tiger M@te & Surg4bij4k. Bangladesh to Indonesia, we own it all,” hackers who defaced the Pitcairn Islands domains said on the compromised pages.
At this point, it’s not known if the Pakistani
hackers targeting Google’s Bangladesh domain had any other purpose than
to highlight the weak security of the website, but given the fact that
it all happened through DNS hijacking, no information was put at risk.
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