The attack seems to be more about showing off than hacktivism

Mar 25, 2013 10:16 GMT  ·  By

Charaf Anons, the Anonymous Algeria hacker who defaced over 1,000 websites last week, has breached around 20 Chinese government websites and has replaced their index pages with his own defacement webpage.

In addition to the Chinese sites, the hacker has also defaced a Vietnamese government website and the one belonging to an Iranian university.

Around two dozen commercial websites from Australia, Italy, Korea, Taiwan, Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, Canada and Chile have suffered the same fate.

As HackRead highlights, the breach doesn’t appear to have anything to do with hacktivism. Instead, it’s more of a way to show off to other hacker groups.

Currently, some of the sites have been restored, but many of them still host the defacement page.

The complete list of defaced sites is available here.