14 DAY TRIAL // Several high-profile websites from Malawi, a landlocked country in southeast Africa, have been defaced after hackers of the Bangladesh Grey Hat Hackers group managed to breach the .mw domain registrar’s systems.
The defaced sites include nic.mw, registrar.mw, biz.mw, co.mw, com.mw, edu.mw, gov.mw and others. The hackers haven’t defaced the website’s index pages, but instead added their own .html file to each of the domains.
“We got a bug on their server. Consider it as warning to increase security. We didn’t deface index of those sites as warning. We request their government to increase security,” one of the hackers told Softpedia.
Currently, all the affected sites still display the defacement pages. A mirror of the defacement can be found here.
As some of you might remember, this is not the first time when the Malawi domain registrar is hacked. Back in February, several high-profile sites, including google.mw, cocacola.mw, fanta.mw, yahoo.mw, kaspersky.mw were defaced after hackers had breached the organization’s systems.