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New Danish Websites Hacked
John Stith
Staff Writer
2006-02-14
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Muslim hackers continue their retaliatory assault on Danish websites over the political cartoons run in Danish newspapers last year and more recently in other European publications. As this story is being written, the number is up to 1819 Danish sites alone and continues to rise.
The defaced sites contain messages aimed at various Western folks carry a message attacking people who the hackers feel insult their religion of Islam. One site, beetlejuice.dk, was hacked by Iranian hackers calling themselves the Ashiyane Defacers Digital Security Team. This would seem to be a bit of self-promotion by the group. On this site, they left a message in different languages saying, "We are Muslims and We Cannot Let Anyone to Insult to Islam." The Ashiyane team even sent a note to Zone-H to make sure they got credit to the appropriate hackers:
Hello Dear
We are Ashiyane Digital Security Team and the name of our Dafacer team
is Ashiyane Digital Security Team too. We want to notify to you we
hacked some .dk sites yesterday which this site is very important:
http://www.beetlejuice.dk
deface page: http://www.beetlejuice.dk/ash.htm
zone-h link: http://www.zone-h.com/en/defacements/mirror/id=3333403
Please add our defacer name into
http://zone-h.org/en/news/read/id=205987 list.
we are waiting for your response. Regards
Kamalian
Ashiyane Security Team
www.ashiyane.com
Other sites were hacked by hackers from various other areas including Turkey, Morocco and there were even Kurdish hackers. The individuals in question also had messages to others like "ImhaTimi Was Here!!!!!" or "Special Greetz To: Hacker1 - Team-Evil - Ghost - Yanis - WizardZ - DarkbiteX and All Hackers From Morocco."
Other hackers include Sys7ech, marcosadp, Patriotic Hackers, arian hacker, Mr.Dark Shark!! and the list goes on. While many sites being hacked are Danish, the hacks aren't limited to Denmark. The hacked sites come from countries like Switzerland, the UK, Canada and Brazil. Some of the screen shots captured are example of the defacing hacks being done.
This all started when a Danish newspaper ran political cartoons depicting Mohammed, the symbol and prophet of Islam, as a terrorist. This happened last summer. In recent weeks, some European periodicals reprinted these cartoons and in some cases added some new ones. Since a number of European countries like France have large Muslim populations, naturally this didn't sit well.
As a result, protests began in various Arab countries and some of these turned into riots. Embassies were destroyed, people were killed and it was quite the ugly scene. Even today, a KFC was destroyed in Pakistan. Part of this protest was the hacking of a number of websites last week, many of which were based in Denmark. Today, another assault hitting thousands of sites cut loose today from multiple teams of hackers in an apparent concerted effort.
It's probably safe to say this is going to happen again. The locations of these groups are no big secret. The difficulty, as always, seems to be getting them and being able to prosecute them. Also consider some of these folks are also looking for a job in the security software industry somewhere. This is a route to show what they can do. This route is old and has been worked before, referring to hackers looking for security jobs. It probably won't be the last time something like this happens.
In the meantime, sites should be wary and start updating their security protocols to try and prevent or at least make it more difficult to get into these sites in the future.
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John is a staff writer for SecurityProNews covering cyber security.
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