On 27th of this month at 8:00 am, website of Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan was again defaced by hacker named Hamza known as Zombie_Ksa. According to sources; this websites got hacked earlier Tuesday morning but the hacker may have had access to website on Monday night.After hacking message displayed on SC website is “Supreme Court of Pakistan is in untalented hands”. Hacker purpose was to show his ideological nature to Chief justice of Pakistan Ifthikhar Mohammad Chaudhary by sending the message:
“I am here to request you to go out and help the poor, needy and hungry. They don’t have money to eat one-time meal, they don’t have clothes to wear, and they don’t have accommodation … sitting in your royal chair won’t make any changes to our Pakistan.”
Sources are saying that message also includes request to order Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to ban access to pornographic websites. According to one of the reports, hacker also threatened to hack the website of PTA if his demands get not fulfilled. According to Press Information Department release on July 2010, Zombie _Ksa had been identified as Jawad Ehsan alias Hamza who is also the founder of PAKBugs. PakBugs is an organization running hackers group.Besides Pakistan Zombie_Ksa also have hacked 3 Indian banks, 4 Indian police websites and Indian CID.
According to Zone-H.org; until now Zombie_Ksa had carried out at least 169 defacements out of which 69 were single IP addresses and 100 were mass defacements. National Response Centre for Cyber Crimes (NR3C), National Productivity Organization (NPO), Pakistan Computer Bureau (PCB), Press Information Department (PID) as well as other Pakistan government and private websites were also being defaced by Zombie_Ksa.
The NR3C wing of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had caught five members of PAKBugs from Pakistan but this organization believes to be large in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Supreme Court website was previously hacked on September 29, 2010. At that time hackers defaced the logo of website and left insulting and offensive remarks against judiciary on website.Defaced web page is now removed from SC website and NR3C has arrested two boys Saim Ali Shah and Salal Ali Shah from Kohat who were believed to be involved in this case, also there seems a connection of these boys with the Pakistan Cyber Army and PAKBugs.
By: Rahat Masood
Ref:
[1] http://tribune.com.pk/story/261497/hacker-defaces-supreme-court-website/
[2] http://thehackernews.com/2010/12/cbi-was-actually-hacked-by-hamza.html
[3]http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-09-27/pakistan/30207691_1_hacker-website-defaced
[4] http://pkscoop.com/supreme-court-website-gets-hacked.html
