Ponting Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Hackforums - one of the popular hacking forum in the world - has been hacked and defaced by the famous Egyptian hacker with the online handle Eg-R1z.HackForums is popular among both whitehats and blackhats. On one end of the spectrum, HackForums helps over 110,000 hacking community members to remove dangerous malware off of their computers, as well as promotes research and learning of various malwares.But on the other end, it servers as a great platform for hackers and cyber thieves as well, who posts infected material in order to victimize others. The website is hosted in Europe on a server and expected to be earning an estimated $7,316 USD on a daily basis.Last night, hackforums.net went dark with a defacement message that reads:"[403 Forbidden Error] - You might be blocked by your IP, Country, or ISP."That's really nasty msg guys , don't u think so?!Just sending greets from Egypti-Hmx , H3ll C0D3 , Egyptian.H4x0rZ./Eg-R1z Cr3wIt is still unclear, how hacker managed to get into server and which type of vulnerability or weakness has been exploited. But, it seems that the hacker just exploited some flaw and defaced the website and then hosted the image on hacked server which was displayed on the defaced page.Reason behind the defacement of the website is still unknown, but with the deface message, one can predict that the hacker is warning the HackForums admin about security.The forum was unavailable for few hours last night, but at the time of writing, the site was back to its normal form, but site performance is still facing some issues. You can check the defacement mirror of the hack at Zone-h as a Proof of Hack.It’s not first time HackForums website got hacked. In past, HackForums website was also hacked by various hackers with online handles imLulzPirate, b0x, SYRIAN-HACKER and KTN.Source: http://thehackernews.com/2014/08/popular-hackforums-website-defaced-by_27.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
software182 Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knowledge-Spammer Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 everyone can do this but y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#return 1337 Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 The same reason kids deface Wikipedia. They think they're amazing. Running a quick set of tools I use for offsite pens, I found 18 separate vulnerabilities I could use as vectors to pen that site. It's absolute garbage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarik Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 I am upgraded member there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmes Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 I am also a member there and defacing that website is very smart the egyptian hackers are going to be lucky if the black hats dont retaliate hackforums got some skilled mother fuckers.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munix Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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