After a week long campaign against government websites, having hacked and defaced over two dozen state sites and sub-domains, hackers shifted their cyber-front against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
On Sunday, PTI’s website fundyourtsunami.com was hacked and defaced.
PTI chairperson Imran Khan’s face was defaced resembling that of a vampire with the Star of David tattooed on his forehead and holding a mask with Pakistan’s crescent and star stamped on it, captioned “behind the mask.”
The hacking team of Pakistan Haxors Crew claimed responsibility for the cyber attack, warning that their fight is not against any individual but the system as a whole.
PTI funding Website Hacked :http://t.co/Kml1wrV5IPhttp://t.co/9Yc89JQk7X... http://t.co/o8Ae2fmV83
— Pakistan Haxors Crew (@PakistanHaxorsC) September 7, 2014
Pakistan Haxors CREW - PHC ki tarf sy PTI ko aik chota Sa Fund :Phttp://t.co/8BS2Gp1aVs... http://t.co/kFAPwfKwMk
— Pakistan Haxors Crew (@PakistanHaxorsC) September 7, 2014
Last night, hackers defaced the website of Interior Ministry, featuring a short message for Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan that claimed "his hair was as fake as the May 2013 elections".
Screengrab of the hacked Interior Ministry website
The hacking follows a week of hacking and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on a number of government and military websites by hactivists who identified with the hacking group anonymous and the hacking team of Pakistan Haxors Crew. Some media websites were also targeted.
They, however, during the week, had apologised for targeting military websites, noting that it was done in error.
Hackers, who identify themselves with the hacktivist group Anonymous, claimed to have acted against 31 websites of the government in response to the violence against protesters.
“We are cataloguing the atrocities being committed in Pakistan. We will begin at once assisting the peaceful protesters in Pakistan with every tool and tactic at our disposal. And we will initiate the process of removing every vestige of the Pakistan government from the Internet and shutting down their communications network,” the group claimed in its press release.
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@Saleem:
Few weeks ago, PTI folks, not Indian, started a wrong tradition of defacing Pakistan Government websites
Really? And did Najam Sethi's Chirya told you this? Or did you pull out this fact from a horse's behind?
Stop making accusations without any proof. I can quite easily say here that you are an ex KGB agent and there will be no way for you to disprove it!
Hey you Tribune writers... do some research!
The Pakistan Haxors Crew is another team whereas Anonymous is the world-wide hackers group. Nobody shifted sides. Pakistan Haxors Crew may just be bought or after attention whereas the Patwaris can not buy the real Anonymous group who are pro-people... the people who got massacred in the Islamabad attacks.
There is an old saying what goes around will come around. It is pretty naive for 60+ Imran Khan to not understand this.
Few weeks ago, PTI folks, not Indian, started a wrong tradition of defacing Pakistan Government websites, as if those sites were of an enemy And now copycats are doing the same to PTI's website.
I am disgusted with Imran Khan's attitude and lust for power. When PTI's supporters were defacing Pakistani websites then Imran Khan should have put his step down and told them that wrong is wrong. But he didn't and now it is coming back to him.
This is the only thing PMLN can do, infact they cant even do this properly yet they are running the country. What a shame.
Though hacking isn't good but hats off to the talent.... Whoever they are. They did a really bad thing BTW... :(
It would be better if these hackers could muster up their courage to reveal facts about 2013 elections rather than wasting time on showing off their presence like this. What a waste. Military website hack was a mistake..my foot..what if they had done some serious damage to the nation?
I think they should raise the voting age back up again...to like 25 at least. Clearly the work of eighteen year olds and their idea of participating in politics.
Shows the level of Patwari Hackers. Look at the message allegedly left by PTI hackers and compare it with typical jew/CIA agent rhetoric of Patwaris. BTW fundyourtsunami is not a PTI website but sub domain of insaf.pk. It was launched during 2013 elections to raise funds and was not in use :).