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The biggest hacking incident in the web-hosting history UPDATE 11.30 PM GMT
Written by Roberto Preatoni
(SyS64738)
05/18/2006
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UPDATE 11.30 PM GMT
We are receiving 17,000 more defaced websites in these minutes. We will
account them in this news but we are not sure we will ever be able to handle
such a huge amount of notifications as to mirror all of them we should possess a
distributed platform such the one Google is having on Akamai. The latest
notified defacements seems to belong to the ISP secureserver.com
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Yesterday the Turkish cracker going by the handle "Iskorpitx", succesfully
hacked 21,549 websites in one shot (plus 17,000 as our last update) and defaced
(on a secondary page) all of them with a message showing the Turkish flag (with
AtaTurk face on it) and reporting:
"HACKED BY iSKORPiTX
(TURKISH HACKER)
FUCKED ARMANIAN-FUCKED FRANCE-FUCKED GREECE-FUCKED PKK TERROR
iscorpitx, marque du monde, présente ses salutations à tout le monde. "
Iskorpitx controversial defacing activity started back in year 2003 being the
first Turkish defacer ever. His defacing frenzy led him soon to reach the
"incredible" number of more than 117,000 hacked websites some of them being even
government websites of his own country. In this last incident, it is not clear
at which level the intrusion was performed (root or webserver) as the fact that
all the 21,549 websites got defaced on a secondary page (site.com/ssfm/isko.htm)
it is not indicative given the particular Iskorpitx's modus operandi that sees
all of his hacks performed creating a subpage, regardless the authorization
level achieved on the attacked servers.
In the recent months Iskorptix has been taken as a model to be imitated by a
lot of young Turkish crackers, making Turkey the new defacers kingdom, totaling
nowadays more than 50% of the notified defacements overall, surpassing the
former defacers kingdom: Brazil.
Script Kiddies or Script Grannies? Iskorpitx is believed to be 45 years old,
sometimes being helped for minor defacement activities by another Turkish
"senior cracker" (42) going by the handle of Metlak .
Despite the fact that the majority of Turkish defacers are performing
Islam-related hacks, this doesn't seem to be the leading motivation for
Iskorpitx.
Statistics about Iskorpitx's incidents can be found at:
http://www.zone-h.org/en/en/defacements/filter/filter_defacer=iskorpitx/
while the full list of the 21,549 defacements can be found at:
www.zone-h.org/defaced/list.txt
Original article: http://zone-h.org/
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