The well-known, high-traffic news site of Nikos Evagelatos recently fell victim to hackers. Newsit
Newsit.gr is among the most visited 10 pages in Greece, which makes it a high profile target.
The hackers altered it main site of the Newswitch portal, placing a picture of Antonis Samaras along with a message referring to closed banks and closed houses. The Attack Screenshot is shown below:
The attack took place at approximately 00:30 to 01:00 on Sunday morning, while already discussions about the theme have lit up on Twitter.
Attack was accepted even in the morning and the ISKRA website as we have said our related article [here]
The management team seems to be trying to restore the webσελίδα in good working order until this time. The attack methodology used by the hackers to achieve the alteration remains unknown so far.
Impression is due to the fact that no one has taken responsibility with a message, while the hacker who has achieved the impressive admittance sign is signing as "LamogioHunt3r", ie "Lamont Hunter", a pseudonym that has not been used in the past in a similar assault.
Η by clicking here, although to many at the moment it seems repaired, periodically it restores the image of the alteration due to caching that appears to be performed by services such as Akamai and Proxy of mobile phone companies.
The attack took place a few hours before the polls opened for the referendum.
