The notorious hacking group, OurMine, is known for breaching into high-profile figures in addition to companies' social media accounts, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, HBO, Game of Thrones in addition to Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN).
According to screenshots circulating on Twitter, the official website of WikiLeaks has reportedly been defaced past times the OurMine hacking group, who left a message on the site, equally shown above.
WikiLeaks is a whistleblowing website that since March, has been revealing transcend CIA hacking secrets nether Vault 7, including the agency's mightiness to suspension into different mobile in addition to desktop platforms, safety photographic goggle box camera live video streams, air-gap computers in addition to many more.
There is no indication of WikiLeaks servers in addition to website been compromised, instead it seems their website has been redirected to a hacker-controlled server using DNS poisoning attack.
In DNS poisoning attack, too known equally DNS spoofing, an aggressor gets command of the DNS server in addition to changes a value of name-servers inwards company to divert Internet traffic to a malicious IP address.
Shortly afterward the defacement, the site administrators regained access to their DNS server in addition to at the fourth dimension of writing, the WikiLeaks website is dorsum online from its official legitimate servers.
OurMine is a Saudi Arabian grouping of hackers which claims to endure a "white hat" safety firm.
The grouping markets itself past times taking over social media accounts of high-profile targets in addition to thus encourages them to contact the hacking grouping to purchase its information technology safety service inwards an endeavor to protect themselves from time to come cyber attacks.
