Early Saturday morning, attempts to access the search engine Google led to a page that appeared and behaved in a manner quite unlike the familiar logo and search bar one is used to. Google had been hacked and defaced.
The defaced webpage appeared only on the Pakistan sub-site for the search engine www.Google.com.pk Those who access Google from within Pakistan are usually redirected to this portal. Though soon, the redirect stopped working and one was taken to the international page Google.com for search queries.
Hackers swapped the Google logo and a search bar with an image of two penguins walking on a bridge. A message in Turkish read (translated through Google Translate):
“Eboz of a friend always there for me My homies have not shot by me with every breath”
It further added the line “Downed Pakistan” to confirm the webpage had been taken down.
At the bottom of the page, the hackers added a big question mark followed by the tagline that when translated read:
“Hello friends who are still alive, not dead!”
ryzvonusef writes with news that hackers have taken down the local Pakistan versions of many popular websites, including google.com.pk, and apple.pk, Microsoft. pk and yahoo. pk. 284 sites were affected in total. Many of the sites were defaced, and a group called Eboz is taking credit for the hack. According to TechCrunch, "The root of today’s attack, it seems, came via a breach of Pakistan’s TLD operator, PKNIC, which administers and registers all .pk domains. Looking at affected organizations via PKNIC’s look-up, it appears that all the sites are now redirecting to two nameservers, dns1.freehostia.com, and dns2.freehostia.com."
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