WikiLeaks website got hacked and defaced by OurMine!

in #news7 years ago

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OurMine is in features indeed—this time for destroying WikiLeaks site.

The infamous hacking gathering, OurMine, is known for rupturing into prominent figures and organizations' web-based social networking accounts, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, HBO, Game of Thrones and Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN).

As per screenshots circling on Twitter, the official site of WikiLeaks has allegedly been mutilated by the OurMine hacking gathering, who left a message on the site, as appeared previously.

WikiLeaks is a whistleblowing site that since March, has been uncovering top CIA hacking privileged insights under Vault 7, including the organization's capacity to break into various portable and desktop stages, surveillance camera live video streams, air-hole PCs and some more.

There is no sign of WikiLeaks servers and site been traded off, rather it appears their site has been diverted to a programmer controlled server utilizing DNS harming assault.

In DNS harming assault, otherwise called DNS caricaturing, an assailant gains power of the DNS server and changes an estimation of name-servers to redirect Internet movement to a malevolent IP address.

Not long after the mutilation, the webpage executives recovered access to their DNS server and at the season of composing, the WikiLeaks site is back online from its authority true blue servers.

OurMine is a Saudi Arabian gathering of programmers which cases to be a "white cap" security firm.

The gathering markets itself by assuming control online networking records of prominent targets and afterward urges them to contact the hacking gathering to purchase its IT security benefit with an end goal to shield themselves from future digital assaults.

source: https://nerdylab.me/hacking/wikileaks-website-got-hacked-defaced-ourmine/

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Good information shared, our mine is making a fool of cyber security

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