Some ‘Tards Hacked Me!
Jan 23rd, 2008 by George
Some group attacked my website :(
Not this one, thankfully, but there was an attack on a *previously unknown* vulnerability on my website, caused by Wordpress’s auto installer making a wp-config file with permissions 666, which enabled it to be attacked, apparently.
Once again, BizStreet responded quickly and helpfully, and we found the source of the problem in minutes.
The hacking group were called Mir*aTu*rk (-*)(Google it, I’m not linking to them after the attack they caused on me), and they appear to have done it to loads of websites so beware, I guess.
I’m also wondering if there is anything I can do to return the favor, it seems like script-kiddies playing with some script that finds vulnerabilities, and I’m sure as hell going to make sure I harden GPearce against it now, and so on and so forth. What is there that’s legally possible to do, to return the favour? Comments appreciated
-G
If you are hosted in the USA, I believe there are actions you can take legally, I’m not sure whether or not it matters where the group is from, though.
They are in Turkey, I would guess, I wish there was some way for me to take action, teach the buggers a lesson :(
Thats a shame.
At least its online now.
If they ARE from turkey, I would personally advise you to stay well away, because normally in turkey they start groups worth.. So if you take action, another group would find out info, etc.. - All your sites would more than likely go offline due to them…
So its just advised from me to stay well away - I’ve had the same thing happen to me and I lost my sites for a month, luckily I just moved severs for all of them onto a extreemly secure server and only had indexs.. etc.. etc.. every password of mine is now ATLEAST 50 characters long. All different.. xD
So yeah, just a heads up from me.. Stay well away!
-Keanu
Keanu
Thanks! I’ll start messing around more with passwords, the one for this site is seriously long anyway :P
And miraturk suggests turkey xD