Updated: DNS Hijacking takes down AVG.com, WhatsApp.com, and Avira.com

  • 8 October 2013
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Early this morning, a pro-Palestinian hacker group known and KDSM Team launched a DNS hijacking of a range of websites, replacing the homepage content with pro-Palestinian information.
 
The content on the three pages read as follows:
“We are here to deliver two messages. First one: we want to tell you that there is a land called Palestine on the earth. This land has been stolen by Zionist. Do you know it? Palestinian people has the right to live in peace. Deserve to liberate their land and release all prisoners from Israeli jails. We want peace. Long live Palestine."
 
“Second message: There Is No Full Security. We Can Catch You! Hacked by KDMS team. Now We Will Quit Hacking.”
 
While the connection between the three websites remains unknown, it does seemt hat all three websites had their domains registered through Network Solutions, and that the possibility of a network break at the registar's level is possible. 
 
Since the reporting of these hacks, all three companies have beenw orking to replace the hacked content with live pages, but depneding on the DNS that a user is using, they might still see the hacked pages as live.
 
Read more here: http://www.techienews.co.uk/971899/avg-com-whatsapp-com-hacked-pro-palestinian-hackers/
 
Update: It has been reported that Alexa and Redtube have also been taken down in this DNS hijacking.

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"Oh man RedTube is down"
"What's that"
"Uh..err..it's a youtube clone boss..."

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