14 DAY TRIAL // Hacktivism group Ghost Squad Hackers (GSH) defaced 12 websites belonging to the Afghan government on Thursday, September 1, 2016.
GSH used a vulnerability common to all servers to add content to the websites showing an anti-government message.
The defacement appeared on the websites belonging to Afghanistan's Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations, and the Afghan Attorney General's Office.
The message also appeared on the website of Afghanistan's Civil Aviation Authority, the Afghan Cart Company, the Afghanistan Railway Authority, the Afghan Geodesy and Cartography Head Office, the Balkh Governor Office, and two domains we couldn't track down to which agency they belonged (arg.gov.af and aais.gov.af).
Softpedia reached out to GSH, who provided the following statement regarding their motives:
“ Because of Afghan government relation to drug ties with United States and the treatment they are giving their people, this attack was a personal attack from one of our members, we were sought out also by their own people. ”
Last week, Ghost Squad Hackers also took down the websites of the Bank of Israel and the Prime Minister's Office.Mirrors for all defacements are available on the Zone-H portal:
https://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/26748216
https://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/26748215
https://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/26748217
https://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/26748218
https://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/26748219
https://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/26748220
https://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/26748221
https://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/26748222
https://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/26748223
https://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/26748224
https://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/26748337
https://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/26748338
The mass Defacement was for #Justice4Hazaras #Justice4Afghans #FucktheGovernment #GhostSquadHackers #G4mm4 — Ghost Squad Hackers (@GhostSquadHack) September 1, 2016