The online hacktivists from Anonymous Palestine – KDMS Team has hacked and defaced the official websites of anti-virus giant ESET, BitFinder along with the websites of high profile penetration and vulnerability testing software platform Metasploit and Rapid7 earlier today.
Hackers left their deface page along with a message on all hacked websites in support of Palestine and against the state of Israel. The deface message was expressed in following words:
- Mission completed, hacked KDMS TEAM – Palestinian hackers! After whatsapp , avira , alexa , avg and other sites, We was thinking about quitting hacking and disappear again ..! But we said : there is some sites must be hacked..You are one of our targets, Therefore we are here. Do you know Palestine? There is a land called Palestine on the earth, This land has been stolen by Zionist..Do you know it ?.. Palestinian people has the right to live in peace. Deserve to liberate their land and release all prisoners from israeli jails! We want peace..Long Live Palestine.
Links of targeted websites along with their mirrors are given below:
www.bitdefender.com
http://zone-h.org/mirror/id/20965099
www.eset.com
http://zone-h.org/mirror/id/20965095
http://rapid7.net
http://zone-h.org/mirror/id/20960367
http://www.metasploit.com/
http://zone-h.org/mirror/id/20960363
ESET and BitFinder are known to most of the users but Metasploit and Rapid7 are known to only those who deal with information security field. Metasploit Project is a computer security project that provides information about security vulnerabilities and aids in penetration testing and IDS signature development.
Rapid7 provides vulnerability management, compliance and penetration testing solutions for web applications, network and database security.
KDMS is the same team that hacked and defaced Alexa Internet Search, Whatsapp, Avira and AVG Anti-Virus websites in support of Palestine few days ago.
At the time of publishing this article, all websites were restored and working online.
