14 DAY TRIAL // The Syrian hacker known as Dr. SHA6H has breached and defaced a number of government websites of the Indian state of Kerala. The attack took place on Saturday.
A total of 11 websites have been targeted, E Hacking News informs. The list of impacted sites includes the ones of the Kerala State Blood Transfusion Council (blood.kerala.gov.in), Kerala State Planning Board (spb.kerala.gov.in), Right to Education Kerala (rtekerala.gov.in), the Farm Information Bureau (fibkerala.gov.in), and Fisheries Network Information System (fishnetkerala.gov.in).
Other defaced websites are the ones of INSIGHT (insight.kerala.gov.in), the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College (tmc.kerala.gov.in), Thiruvananthapuram (trivandrum.gov.in), Ombudsman for LSGI Kerala (ombudsmanlsgiker.gov.in), and the Arogyakeralam National Rural Health Mission web portal (arogyakeralam.gov.in).
At the time of writing, all of these websites are offline, displaying an error message that reads “Website is currently under maintenance. We will be back shortly.” A list of the impacted websites, along with defacement mirrors, is available on Pastebin.
On the defaced websites, the hacker posted a message claiming that most of the world’s countries don’t want to help Syria. He highlights the fact that the US hasn’t intervened in the case of Syria as it has done in Afghanistan.
“Is there are international interest with Bashar al-Assad? Or economic interest, or is [it] a political interest? We don’t understand,” the hacker noted. “We want answers [from] all the countries of the world, there are children dying, women [abused] and houses destroyed.”
Dr. SHA6H has breached and defaced numerous government websites over the past period to spread his message. He claims to protest against the “Syrian regime’s actions of murder and destruction.” His objective is to “save Syria from hell.”