An Iranian cyber group has announced that it has hacked the Voice of America (VOA) and all its affiliated websites. The Iranian news agency Fars says the move came in response to what it called ‘the false reports released by the VOA and other websites on the spread and progress of seditious moves in Iran.’
According to the news agency, which is thought to have close ties to Iranian authorities, ‘VOA and its affiliates have long been supporting anti-Islamic Republic groups and sought to provoke unrests in Iran. The Voice of America is the official external radio and television broadcasting service of the United States’ federal government, but it acts as a complementary and media arm of the US spy agencies.’
Iran’s Cyber Army said it has hacked the main VOA website as well as 95 other websites affiliated to the VOA. It said the hackers have left the following message on the VOA website:
“Mrs. Clinton, Do you want to hear the voice of the oppressed nations?”
“The Islamic nations would no more be tricked by the US, and we want you to stop interfering in the Islamic countries.”
(Source: Fars News Agency)
on Feb 22nd, 2011 at 18:47
It appears they were able to hack into a dns server to get into the voa websites. Doesn’t look like the overlay from paper thin software wasn’t the issue nor the cfm pages from adobe.
on Feb 22nd, 2011 at 18:48
In other news: Radio NZ live stream capacity has just been increased - if you were having trouble connecting, please try again. from RNZ twitter feed
on Feb 23rd, 2011 at 03:43
I captured the screen during the hack:
http://www.w4uvh.net/VOAiranhack.jpg
Some reports think the Iranian Cyber Army is really Russian.