Twitter Hacked, Defaced By “Iranian Cyber Army”
The message read:
Iranian Cyber Army
THIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY IRANIAN CYBER ARMY
iRANiAN.CYBER.ARMY@GMAIL.COM
U.S.A. Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access, But THey Don’t, We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power, So Do Not Try To Stimulation Iranian Peoples To….
NOW WHICH COUNTRY IN EMBARGO LIST? IRAN? USA?
WE PUSH THEM IN EMBARGO LIST
Take Care.
Now after doing a little Research in to the subject the fact which came up was..No!!! twitter is not hacked it seems that only the namespaces of twitter have been hacked.
Running a tracepath on twitter returned
- $ tracepath http://www.twitter.com
- 1: local-khan.local (192.168.0.100) 0.251ms pmtu 1500
- 1: 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 0.897ms
- 1: 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 0.479ms
- 2: 10.244.144.1 (10.244.144.1) 8.335ms
- 3: ip68-0-128-113.tc.ph.cox.net (68.0.128.113) 8.431ms
- 4: 70.169.76.229 (70.169.76.229) 24.198ms asymm 6
- 5: langbbr01-ae0.r2.la.cox.net (68.1.0.232) 35.657ms asymm 8
- 6: cr2-cr1.lax009.internap.net (66.79.146.206) 36.178ms asymm 10
- 7: lax009-phx007-832-cr1.phx007.internap.net (66.79.147.182) 40.415ms asymm 8
- 8: cr2-cr1.phx007.internap.net (66.79.147.174) 46.740ms asymm 9
- 9: dal005-phx007-833-cr1.dal005.internap.net (66.79.147.177) 54.298ms asymm 7
- 10: dal005-tor003-1160-cr1.tor003.pnap.internap.net (66.79.147.230) 86.102ms asymm 7
- 11: tor001-tor003-769-core1.tor001.internap.net (66.79.153.34) 98.458ms asymm 9
- 12: border1.te9-1-bbnet2.tor001.pnap.net (70.42.24.196) 94.665ms asymm 9
- 13: netfirms-1.border1.tor001.pnap.net (70.42.26.54) 104.351ms asymm 10
It seems that the nameservers for twitter have some redirect in effect or some sort of server-side DNS cache poisoning.
Lets see whats the twitter has to say about the same on their blog.
