RSSICANN publicity may have triggered malicious behavior
By Tim Conneally | Published June 27, 2008, 1:36 PM
On a week when ICANN's decisions were headlining hundreds of tech news sites, several of the group's pages were defaced by a group of hackers, and a phishing scam spoofing the group's page hit inboxes across the country.
Yesterday, a Turkish group known as "NetDevilz" -- which is linked to a reported 31 perpetrated attacks just this year, as tracked by site Zone-H -- hijacked icann.com, icann.net, iana.com, and iana-servers.com, all sites belonging to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).
The defacement replaced pages' contents with the group's name, and the message "You think that you control the domains but you don't! Everybody knows wrong. We control the domains including ICANN! Don't you believe us? haha :) (Lovable Turkish hackers group)."
The phishing attack was launched several days before ICANN's site was defaced and targeted domain name owners. The e-mails that were sent contained the following text:
The spoofed site, which has since been removed, was a faithful representation of the pre-hack ICANN page design, with blank fields for all harvestable user information.
Its a shame that people who speak English as a second language can deface and hack our sites and take control of our airplanes. We are obviously doing something wrong.
When are people going to realize the "America is untouchable attitude" is not working.
The proof is in the firewall and protection. Lets gets with the program people.
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