{"id":52574,"date":"2013-10-08T21:18:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T19:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=52574"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:06:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:06:48","slug":"whatsapp-site-hacked-by-pro-palestinian-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/whatsapp-site-hacked-by-pro-palestinian-group\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp site hacked by pro-Palestinian group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Whatsapp\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/whatsapp\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WhatsApp<\/a> has become the latest victim of politically-driven website hackings. The messaging service&#8217;s site was taken over earlier today by the <a title=\"KDMS Team twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KdmsTeam\/status\/387489339527024640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KDMS Team<\/a>, who put up a pro-Palestinian message on the site as well as claiming no amount of security can stop them.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Whatsapp&amp;src=hash\">#Whatsapp<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/8RsGePZngJ\">pic.twitter.com\/8RsGePZngJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Doe (@JohnDoeRu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnDoeRu\/statuses\/387487584576110592\">October 8, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s interesting about this attack is how simple it was to take over WhatsApp&#8217;s site. It appears that the KDMS Team changed the Domain Name Service (DNS) records for WhatsApp&#8217;s site to redirect to another page. It appears that no security breach was actually implemented, instead relying on DNS spoofing to hijack the site&#8217;s address. DNS servers basically work to translate written web addresses to IP addresses, which are much harder to memorize and search.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp isn&#8217;t alone when it comes to having their DNS spoofed. Earlier this year, the New York Times and Twitter both had their <a title=\"Syrian Electronic Army hacks Twitter, New York Times\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/syrian-electronic-army-hacks-twitter-new-york-times\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">home pages hijacked<\/a> via similar means. The Syrian Electronic Army hacker group claimed responsibility for the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Domain registrars, who control DNS servers, will have to increase security measures if they want to stop this type of attack from happening in the future. At the moment, it&#8217;s too easy for someone to impersonate and steal a domain name.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/h4>\n<h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/syrian-electronic-army-hacks-twitter-new-york-times\">Syrian Electronic Army hacks Twitter, New York Times<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/viber-database-hacked-by-syrian-electronic-army\">Viber hacked by Syrian Electronic Army<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/what-is-encryption\">What is encryption?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p>[Source: <a title=\"CNET\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1009_3-57606455-83\/whatsapp-web-site-hacked-with-pro-palestinian-message\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNET<\/a> | <a title=\"readwrite\" href=\"http:\/\/readwrite.com\/2013\/10\/08\/whatsapp-site-brought-down-dns-based-attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ReadWrite<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has become the latest victim of politically-driven website hackings. The messaging service&#8217;s site was taken over earlier today by the KDMS Team, who put up a pro-Palestinian message on the site as well as claiming no amount of security can stop them. #Whatsapp pic.twitter.com\/8RsGePZngJ &mdash; John Doe (@JohnDoeRu) October 8, 2013 What&#8217;s interesting about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/whatsapp-site-hacked-by-pro-palestinian-group\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WhatsApp site hacked by pro-Palestinian group&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2333],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-52574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwhatsapp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332037,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52574\/revisions\/332037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52574"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=52574"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=52574"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=52574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}