Chinese hackers seek revenge for Baidu’s attack

A few hours after Baidu was attacked by a group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army, Chinese hackers appear to have have sought revenge. At least two Iranian websites have been hacked in the last few hours. Alongside a Chinese flag, a messsage posted on room98.ir said, “chinese honker team[H.U.C]… I’m very sorry for this Testing!… Because of this morning your Iranian Cyber Army… Maybe you haven’t konw this thing!,… This morning your Iranian Cyber Army intrusion our baidu.com… So i’m very unfortunate for you … Please tell your so-called Iranian Cyber Army… Don’t intrusion chinese website about The United States authorities to intervene the internal affairs of Iran’s response… This is a warning! … ¨’©l¨Khack by toutian… from… Honker Union For China.”

As far as we know these websites were hacked by this group

http://www.diabetes.ir/
http://www.mousavian.ir/
http://pankration.gov.ir/
http://room98.ir/
http://www.iribu.ir/
http://www.irib.ac.ir

Baidu hacked by 'Iranian cyber army'

China's most popular search engine, Baidu, has been targeted by the same hackers that took Twitter offline in December, according to reports.

A group claiming to be the Iranian Cyber Army redirected Baidu users to a site displaying a political message.

The site was down for at least four hours on Tuesday, Chinese media said.

Last year's attack on micro-blogging service Twitter had the same hallmarks, sending users to a page with an Iranian flag and message in Farsi.

"This morning, Baidu's domain name registration in the United States was tampered with, leading to inaccessibility," Baidu said in a statement.

Visitors to the site were greeted with the message: "This site has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army".

The message was accompanied by a picture of the national flag of Iran.

"In China, Baidu outranks Google as the search engine of choice, receiving millions of visits every day. That makes it an extremely attractive target for cybercriminals," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at security firm Sophos.