Mauritian Government Sub Domain Compromised
Hacker using the codename of Maniak k4sur defaced a sub-domain of the Mauritian Government website. The hacker uploaded a defaced page on which the following message was written,
"« Maniak k4sur w4z here !! »"
At the time of publishing, the webpage was edited on which "This page is under construction" message was seen. The news came as a comment on Mauritian Linux enthusiast Ish Sookun blog around 19hr.
We seized this opportunity to do some further search and discovered that this particular sub domain has been defaced twice. Below are mirrors of each time it was reported defaced,
2014-08-18 09:25:01
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/22796257
2010-10-01 00:09:45
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/11723437
"« Maniak k4sur w4z here !! »"
At the time of publishing, the webpage was edited on which "This page is under construction" message was seen. The news came as a comment on Mauritian Linux enthusiast Ish Sookun blog around 19hr.
We seized this opportunity to do some further search and discovered that this particular sub domain has been defaced twice. Below are mirrors of each time it was reported defaced,
2014-08-18 09:25:01
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/22796257
2010-10-01 00:09:45
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/11723437