Malaysia Airlines Defaced - 404 Plane Not Found
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Re: Malaysia Airlines Defaced - 404 Plane Not Found
#2> hacked by a group claiming be aligned with the Islamic State extremist group
> hackers claiming to be similarly aligned with the Islamic State extremist group
This is either really dishonest or really stupid reporting. They're not actually aligning themselves with ISIS. They're just trolls trying to be edgy.
Re: Malaysia Airlines Defaced - 404 Plane Not Found
#3> hacked by a group claiming be aligned with the Islamic State extremist group > hackers claiming to be similarly aligned with the Islamic State extremist group This is either really dishonest or really stupid reporting. They're not actually aligning themselves with ISIS. They're just trolls trying to be edgy.
I don't see how it's dishonest.
Whatever their actual alignment and/or edgy-troll status, they still claimed to be aligned with ISIS, just as the article says.
Re: Malaysia Airlines Defaced - 404 Plane Not Found
#4"Hey everyone, go visit this website that's probably serving malware!"
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#5"Hey everyone, go visit this website that's probably serving malware!"
A simple curl reveals that it isn't... And how often are deface pages serving malware anyways?
IMO it would be much more sensible to serve malware off of a page that _doesn't_ announce it has been hacked.
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#6"Hey everyone, go visit this website that's probably serving malware!"
Google ads regularly serve malware[1], are you going to tell people not to visit Google?
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#7Interestingly enough, despite malaysia airlines claiming that this is just a DNS hijack. It appears that their own CDN (Akamai) is now serving the deface page. (The page was being served by cloudflare before)
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#8HSTS could prevent this from working.
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#9HSTS could prevent this from working.
Not really, the page is being served from MAS's own servers now.
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#10"Hey everyone, go visit this website that's probably serving malware!"
A simple curl reveals that it isn't... And how often are deface pages serving malware anyways? IMO it would be much more sensible to serve malware off of a page that _doesn't_ announce it has been hacked.
Not really. A defaced high profile website will draw visitors e.g. from all major news sites, maybe even TV. Combined with a couple 0days or a browser exploit kit, quite a chance to infiltrate a target.
And if you're lucky the online reporters also have twitter/fb account info on their PCs. I guess this is how the various compromises of twitter accounts have been done.