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posted by janrinok on Wednesday January 08 2020, @08:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the let-the-mocking-begin dept.

Unpatched US government website gets pwned by pro-Iran script kiddie:

On the heels of the killing of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps General Qassem Soleimani by a US MQ-9 Reaper strike on January 2, the US Department of Homeland Security warned of potential cyberattacks against critical infrastructure by Iran. That warning probably didn't apply to the website of the Federal Deposit Library Program, operated by the US Government Printing Office—which was defaced on January 4 with a pro-Iranian message and an image of a bloodied President Donald Trump being punched by an Iranian fist.

The FDLP website is no stranger to defacement attacks. As a brief analysis of the attack by a security researcher with the Twitter username @sshell_ noted, the site has been defaced twice in the last 10 years—most recently in 2014, when it was replaced with an electronic dance music video featuring a dancing cat. Based on a fingerprint of the site's files, the site—based on the Joomla content management system—had not had its code updated since 2012. And the site had modules that used a version of Joomla's RSForm that had been flagged 11 months ago as being vulnerable to a SQL Injection attack.

While the image depicting Trump had no metadata attached to it, another image with text had Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF) data indicating it had been created with Adobe Photoshop CS 6 for Windows in 2015. As sshell_ noted, the image was used in a defacement reported to the "cybercrime archive" Zone-H by a user identifying themselves as IRAN-CYBER on December 2, 2015.


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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 08 2020, @09:46AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 08 2020, @09:46AM (#940974)

    This time not by Boeing, maybe.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 08 2020, @10:02AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 08 2020, @10:02AM (#940980)

    This time not by Boeing, maybe.

    Those civilian deaths are squarely on Trump. No ifs and buts about it. Iran has a large number of very old planes with no spare parts. They were going to buy a lot of gear to fix these planes until Trump had his Obama-tantrums and cancelled the nuclear deal blocking spare parts for planes from being sold to Iran.

    Another 737 down thanks to America. This time not Boeing (Iran has no new MAX planes anyway), but the administration. 100% avoidable and senseless.

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 08 2020, @10:24AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 08 2020, @10:24AM (#940985)

      There's TDS and then there is the above comment. Hey dipshit, how do you explain Iran firing a buk missile at a civilian passenger plane within its own airspace?

      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 08 2020, @10:55AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 08 2020, @10:55AM (#940992)

        Presumably the same way the US did when they did a similar thing?
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655 [wikipedia.org]

      • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 08 2020, @10:55AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 08 2020, @10:55AM (#940993)

        By depositing my slimy, smelly nutsack deep inside your rectal cavity, and letting it fester until it becomes a significant force unlike any the world has ever seen before...

    • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 08 2020, @11:08AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 08 2020, @11:08AM (#940997)

      It's not an Iranian plane.
      https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/07/middleeast/plane-crash-iran-intl-hnk/index.html [cnn.com]

      The Boeing 737 jet, operated by Ukraine International Airlines,