The message appearing on the Avira website having
been compromised by the pro-Palestinian Kdms
Team of hackers. (Twitter)
A group of pro-Palestinian hackers aligned
with Anonymous has successfully hacked a
range of websites including WhatsApp, AVG
and Alexa.
Over the past 24 hours a group calling
themselves Kdms Team has claimed
responsibility for hacking six different websites,
including the homepages of the hugely popular
messaging service WhatsApp and the top free
anti-virus provider AVG.
The group is aligned with the Anonymous
movement and the messages posted on the
compromised websites indicate they group's aim
is to promote Palestinian viewpooints.
Other websites compromised include those
belonging to security firm Avira, web analytics
company Alexa, porn website RedTube and
hosting provider Leaseweb.
A number of security experts have pointed out
that all compromised sites share a common
domain registrar - Network Solutions - which
indicates the Kdms Team hackers compromised
this network rather than the individual company
websites.
Network Solutions were unavailable for comment
on the situation.
Compromised
Seeming to confirm this theory is a blog post by
Leaseweb on its compromise:
"Last weekend the leaseweb.com website was
unfortunately a direct target of cybercriminals
itself. For a short period of time some visitors of
leaseweb.com were redirected to another, non-
Leaseweb IP address, after the leaseweb.com
DNS was changed at the registrar," Leaseweb
said in a post written over the weekend.
Identical messages (above) were posted on the
homepages of AVG and WhatsApp, under the
title: "You Got Pwned." The message from the
pro-Palestinian group, reads:
"We want to tell you that there is a land called
Palestine on the earth. This land has been stolen
by Zionist. 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"
The group also embedded a YouTube clip of a
patriotic rendition of the Palestinian national
anthem.
Offline
The AVG website is currently not accessible as
the company has no doubt taken it offline in
order to fix the problem. The Avira and
WhatsApp websites which were previously offline,
are currently back in operation.
There is no suggestion that any customer data
was compromised during any of the attacks.
Security researcher Graham Cluley said: It's
possible that the hackers managed to change
the website's DNS records, redirecting anyone
who attempted to visit www.whatsapp.com to a
different IP address."
According to the Kdms Team Twitter account,
the group yesterday compromised the porn
website RedTube as well as the homepage of web
analytics site Alexa, though both of these have
now returned to normal operation it seems.
The emergence of KDMS Team follows the recent
high-profile emergence of the Syrian Electronci
Army, who have grabbed a lot of attention
through their hacking of high-profile media
outlets such as the Associated Press, Sky News
and the BBC.

To confirm visit http//:www.whatsapp.com and http//:www.avira.com/en/avira-antivirus-suite Or visit their twitter page @kdmsteam. This guys are really pros at what they do. So you see,your laptops and gadgets are not that safe.....

Austeenx: What?!?

This hacking shït is cool.

really really cool buh hard to learn