Antivirus firm ESET and BitDefender website defaced by Pro-Palestinian Hackers

A pro-Palestinian hacktivist group 'KDMS Team', who recently managed to briefly hijack the Metasploit website of security firm Rapid7 and become popular after Hacking World's largest Web Hosting Network Leaseweb website and antivirus vendors AVG, Avira as well as mobile messaging service WhatsApp's websites.

Now even I have to say that - Security is just an Illusion, because just now the group aligned with Anonymous has successfully hijacked another two Antivirus firm website - ESET and Bitdefender.

The KDMS Team successfully changed the DNS records of both sites to redirect people to a website playing the Palestinian national anthem and displaying a political message under the title "You Got Pwned".

Message posted on Bitdefender and Eset website says:

Hello bitdefender
Touched By KDMS team
We was thinking about quitting hacking and disappear again ..!
But we said : there is some sites must be hacked
You are one of our targets Therefore we are here ..
And there is another thing .. do you know Palestine ?
There is a land called Palestine on the earth This land has been stolen by Zionist Do you know it ?
Palestinian people has the right to live in peace Deserve to liberate their land and release all prisoners from israeli jails We want peace Long Live Palestine

Both affected domains are registered from REGISTER.COM, INC. by companies, which is also a domain registrar for Metasploit website -- was hijacked yesterday via a spoofed change request faxed to Register.com. But the technical details on how hackers managed to hijack the ESET and Bitdefender website is not yet available, we are in contact with hackers.. Will update the article in a few hours. Stay Tuned !

Defacement of Security companies is really embarrassing and hacker's tactics allowed them to get their political message to millions of users. One of their team members tweeted, "When it's a matter of resistance no one will blame you. . Free Palestine .. Fight for Palestine"

WhatsApp Website defaced by KDMS team

WhatsApp Defaced Page

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Web site of WhatsApp, a widely used messaging app, appeared to have been defaced Tuesday.
The site showed a pro-Palestinian message at 2:40 a.m. PT Tuesday and was given the title "You Got Pwned." A group called KDMS Team claimed credit for the attack.

According to the Whois database, which can be used to see what numeric Internet Protocol (IP) address is assigned to a given Internet domain, the whatsapp IP address record was changed on Tuesday. Such a change, made through the Internet's Domain Name Service (DNS) system, is one way that users who typed in the whatsapp.com name would be redirected to a different Web site.
It wasn't immediately clear if there were any problems with WhatsApp's customer data or services. CNET contacted the company for comment and will update this story with its reply.
WhatsApp is used to send billions of messages a day using mobile apps.

AVG Antivirus and Avira Websites defaced by Palestinian Hackers

AVG Antivirus Hack Screenshot

The Website of Word's most popular Antivirus Firm - AVG were hacked this morning and defaced by a new Palestinian Hacker group - KDMS Team, affiliated with Anonymous Group.

The Defacement page titled 'You got Pwned', with Anonymous Logo and playing Palestinian national anthem in the page background, says: 

we want to tell you that there is a land called Palestine on the earth
this land has been stolen by Zionist
do you know it ?
Palestinian people has the right to live in peace
Deserve to liberate their land and release all prisoners from israeli jails
we want peace and "There Is No Full Security We Can Catch You !"

UPDATE : Another Antivirus Firm 'AVIRA' website also defaced by hackers, just few minutes before.

Avira Website Defaced Page

NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC is common Domain Registrar for AVG, Avira and Whatsapp . Possibly, hacker compromised the Domain Registrar and modifies the DNS settings to perform DNS Hijacking.