Oops! WikiLeaks Website Defaced By OurMine

OurMine is in headlines once again—this time for defacing

WikiLeaks

website.

The notorious hacking group, OurMine, is known for breaching into high-profile figures and companies' social media accounts, including Facebook CEO

Mark Zuckerberg

, Twitter CEO

Jack Dorsey

, Google CEO

Sundar Pichai

,

HBO

,

Game of Thrones

and Sony's

PlayStation Network

(PSN).

According to screenshots circulating on

Twitter

, the official website of WikiLeaks has reportedly been defaced by the OurMine hacking group, who left a message on the site, as shown above.

WikiLeaks is a whistleblowing website that since March, has been revealing top CIA hacking secrets under

Vault 7

, including the agency's ability to break into

different mobile

and

desktop platforms

, security camera

live video streams

,

air-gap computers

and many more.

There is no indication of WikiLeaks servers and website been compromised, instead it seems their website has been redirected to a hacker-controlled server using DNS poisoning attack.

In DNS poisoning attack, also known as DNS spoofing, an attacker gets control of the DNS server and changes a value of name-servers in order to divert Internet traffic to a malicious IP address.

Shortly after the defacement, the site administrators regained access to their DNS server and at the time of writing, the WikiLeaks website is back online from its official legitimate servers.

OurMine is a Saudi Arabian group of hackers which claims to be a "white hat" security firm.

The group markets itself by taking over social media accounts of high-profile targets and then encourages them to contact the hacking group to buy its IT security service in an effort to protect themselves from future cyber attacks.

from The Hacker News http://ift.tt/2eledoE