14 DAY TRIAL // Breaching a country’s domain registrar allows hackers to make it appear as if they’ve breached a large number of high-profile websites. Today, we have two perfect examples.
On one hand, 3thicalnoob, a hacker of the Indian group Indishell has breached nic.kg, the Kyrgyzstan domain registrar.
Cyber News reports that by gaining access to the NIC’s systems, the hacker was able to deface the .kg domains of Google, Adobe, PayPal, Oracle, Microsoft, Fanta, Joomla, Samsung and others.
Of course, many of the domains might not even be in use, but by hijacking DNS entries, the hacker could easily make them redirect visitors to their defacement page.
The second round of “defacements” has been done by hackers using the online monikers Z0mbi3_Ma and SQL_Master. They’ve hijacked the Bosnia Herzegovina (.ba) domains of Google, Google Translate and Google Images.
Currently, the Bosnia and Herzegovina domains have been restored, but some of the ones from Kyrgyzstan still display the defacement pages.