It seem’s Google Bangladesh suffered from a DNS Hijack tomorrow, January 8, 2011, showing a weird hipster page playing a hiphop song, claiming that Google Bangladesh got “OwN3D by TiGER-M@TE. Visitors of the company’s Bangladesh search site (Google.com.bd) see a defaced landing page rather than the usual search site. It was a DNS Hijack, Mr. “TiGER-M@TE” successfully hijacked the DNS records for google.com.bd and redirect it to “172.233.68.2″, which when visited says site doesn’t exist but oh well.. Below is the screenshot for the defacement page :
Local Bangladesh media, including online newspaper bdnews24.com, reported on the news as well, quoting a CTO of a local ISP, who confirmed the hack.
Nevertheless, it seems like only a subset of users see the defaced landing page, while others report that they can visit and use the search engine without any hiccups.
According to Zone-h, Bangladeshi hacker TiGER-M@TE has been quite active with defacements lately, and has targeted some high-profile sites in the past, including the local website for American Express and Airtel as seen on Youtube Video.
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