A poche ore dallo stand off con Google, che minaccia di chiudere le sue operazioni in Cina dopo la denuncia di attacchi informatici provenienti dal territorio cinese, il Paese del Sol Levante è alle prese con un nuovo fronte di cyberwarfare: l'Iran.
Ieri il maggiore motore di ricerca cinese, Baidu, ha subito un attacco di domain hijacking da parte di un gruppo che si fa chiamare "Iranian Cyber Army".
In a statement yesterday, Baidu apologized to Chinese netizens for the inconvenience caused by the cyber attack.
It noted that attackers did not try to break into the servers of Baidu but attacked the domain name registrar used by Baidu, which is based in the US. "It is a new phenomenon and sounds an alarm (for online security)," it said. At about 7:40 am, Baidu went offline and
at times displayed an image consisting of Iran's national flag, words
in Farsi and a torn national flag of Israel, a result of Baidu.com
being redirected to a website located in the Netherlands. A screenshot of the defaced site showed an
announcement in English that read: "This site has been hacked by
Iranian Cyber Army". The sentence below declared in Farsi the
establishment of "Cyber Iran to protest the intervention of foreign and
Israeli sites in our internal affairs and distribution of false news". The Iranian embassy in Beijing rejected any
speculation that the cyber group is related to its government and
warned that someone may use the attack to damage the friendly relations
between China and Iran. Alcune fonti riportano successivi defacement contro siti iraniani contenenti messaggi ed immagini cinesi.
