Saturday morning, when I
tried to accessed google.com.pk, I was surprised to see the defacement page of
turkish hackers, Later on I came to know that other websites such as
Microsoft.com.pk were also despoiled Saturday morning. So if you’re Google
Pakistan traffic was down a bit on Saturday because of this reason.
The Google Pakistan
Google.Com.Pk search engine has allegedly been hacked by an international
hacker group EBOZ, blocking access for consumers of various internet providers
companies to the search engine, Geo News reported on Saturday.
On checking the name servers with nslookup,
the DNS servers were pointing towards a different website, it was clear that
the hacker compromised the DNS server and changed the DNS servers to their
personal, where they had their defacement page. The above image appeared on
major .pk domains, when users were trying to access them.
For a while later the page
started pointing towards google.com instead of google.com.pk, However the name
servers of all .pk domains are still pointing towards freehostia.
The Pakistan
Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said that the search engine had been rebuild
and bring back hours after the hackers attack. Though, Google. Com international search engine has
been working as usual.
This was apparently a DNS
hack, where the hackers took control of the domain name records or server. They
also hacked Microsoft and other well known companies.
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