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DNS poisoning hits Kenya Google, MSN and Skype

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Sharath Kumar
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The Websense ThreatSeeker Network has reported detection of DNS poisoning attack is happening in Kenya, with local big name websites in information technology targeted including Google, Bing, and LinkedIn.

Although DNS records point to a page on behalf of the attackers that lets the browsing user know about the hack, it could easily be replaced with a malicious page at will, a Websense blog post said.

This is another attack issued by the so called Bangladeshi Hacker Group, the hacker group that has defaced 700,000 websites in the past and recently targeted prominent sites in Malawi (February 2013). In the Kenya campaign, from zone-h.com (a website tracking defaced websites), we could cross reference and confirm that the following well-known websites have been affected.

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