Romanian Google and Yahoo Domains Hijacked by Algerian Hacker

The Romanian Google and Yahoo DNS was on Wednesday hijacked by an Algerian hacker, redirecting the users to a defaced website page. An Algerian hacker by the name, MCA-CRB took credit for the attack. MCA-CRB is a popular online graffiti artist who has defaced at least 5,000 sites, according to records kept by Zone-H.

“When we heard about this incident, we were pretty skeptical about the attack. A site such as Google’s can be theoretically hacked, but it is very unlikely. Then we noticed that both domains were directed to an IP address in the Netherlands […], so it seemed more like a DNS poisoning attack,” said Stefan Tanase from Kaspersky Lab Romania.