Almost 1,000 Danish websites have been defaced by Islamic hackers protesting about controversial cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad.
The attacks typically replace home pages with pro-Islam messages and condemn the publication of the images.
Hack attack monitoring group Zone-H said the defacements were done both by hacker groups and individuals. Zone-H said some hackers left moderate messages but many called for a violent response to the cartoons’ publication.
Fast response
“We have never seen so many defacements that are politically targeted in such a short time,” said Roberto Preatoni, founder and administrator of Zone-H. “What is extraordinary for this Danish case is the speed in which the community united,” he added.
Mr Preatoni said monitoring of hacker chat channels revealed that hackers and groups in different Islamic nations had banded together to make the protests more effective. Attacks were known to have come from groups in Turkey, Saudi Arabi, Oman and Indonesia.
[Source: BBC News]
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