The breach appears to be the work of a Saudi Arabian hacker

Nov 4, 2013 15:23 GMT  ·  By

The systems of AdNet Telecom, a major Romania-based telecommunications services provider, have been breached. The attacker is said to be a Saudi Arabian hacker that uses the online moniker King of Control.

The attack was first announced on the Romanian Security Team forums. Two websites of AdNet Telecom have been targeted: adnettelecom.ro, the company’s main domain, and datacity.ro, the domain dedicated to web hosting services.

The breach occurred on Sunday and it took the sites’ administrators quite some time to restore them.

At the time of writing, the sites appear to be working properly. However, both of them had been taken offline before being restored.

Discussing the breach on the Romanian Security Team forums, users have determined that this isn’t a case of DNS hijacking.

I’ve reached out to AdNet Telecom representatives to see if they can comment on the attack. However, I haven’t heard back from them until press time.