Baidu is suddenly unavailable, with sources all over China confirming this.
It seems that China’s most popular search engine, with a market share of over 77% has been hacked by Iranian hackers.
At present, the website is unavailable, but we have found a screenshot from Twitter user Budi Putra.
It seems that the website has had its DNS hacked by the “Iranian cyber Army”, the same guys that hacked Twitter a few weeks ago. The process, called DNS cache poisoning, is the corruption of an Internet server’s domain name system (DNS) table by replacing an Internet address with that of another, rogue address, in this case what the Iranian Cyber Army want you to see.
Exactly why The Iranian Cyber Army has decided to target Baidu.com is unknown but sources say it might be in relation to Iran’s nuclear ambitions, although no one is certain.
Can someone read Persian and translate this?
Update:
We’re being told the site is now accessible from some parts of the world. Still not so from Europe. Please let us know in the comments.
“Can someone read arabic and translate this?”
Actually this is Persian not Arabic .. They still speak Persian in Iran last time I checked …
Now accessible from China.
They have written- in Persian- ” Iranian Cyber army has been established to fight back against Zionist and pro-democracy websites”
Now tell me? Is your website either Zionist or pro-democracy ?
These guys are unassumingly stupid, They do not even know their target, nor hacking ( using DNS to hack a website ? my dead grandpa could do that)
I hope Chinese Government stop supporting this vicious Regime and stop providing them tools and techniques to suppress people.
我同意
我的感受是百度网里可好呢
多少人的心血啊，多少精彩内容啊
居然叫某个国家的人这么糟蹋，国耻啊
猪头，百度是美资公司。
I hope USA Government stop killing the innocent people in Iraq and Afghan！
Now accessible from Hube province, China.
there is a big picture http://img.ly/mf6
Confirmed, they are back after two hours. http://twitter.com/chijs/status/7653432183
Baidu is still not accessible from Beijing.
百度被黑 2010.01.12, 不是简单的主页被黑，是dns劫持,也就是域名劫持，伊朗黑客很强大
百度游戏现在是我唯一的乐趣
该死的黑客，快点遭天谴吧！
Not accessible from California, USA
Twitter was not compromised through DNS cache poisoning, just a redirected DNS entry made via their managed DNS provider’s admin interface.
http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/01/baidu-com-the-latest-victim-of-iranian-cyberarmy/
I doubt this would do any good to anyone. Baidu has a bad reputation in China already, and everyone out of China would definitely choose Google rather than Baidu because it mostly searches Chinese websites only.
It is a good joke though, since it doesn’t hurt anyone.
Baidu is my absolute favourite search engine!!!
I don’t know anything about its “bad reputation”. Rather, I think its applications are mainly free and wonderful as well. Hope it will come back to work soon…
What are you talking about? Baidu has a really good reputation in China. As attested by it’s market share.
Now is unaccessible from some area in China after I flushed DNS.
Why mess with China? WTF?
Yeah, that’s what I think as well!
They mess with China because China is meddling in Iran’s domestic affairs.
Still not accessible from Vancouver, Canada
Not accessible from Washington, USA
I think it is an ominous for Chinese website safety. It is an warning to other websites in china.
Im in BJ, time now is 11:55 a.m. , main page aint accessible yet, not to speak second level domain, aint as true as baidu employees said.
btw Iranian hackers rock!
inaccessible from Shenzhen, China
Is Google the next target?
this is what called the heroic act, chinese people like me would like you people to stop doing this shit right now! and do it again 2moro!
Status changed from reset to nomal access in the last 5 minutes
Iranian goverment just started to use Chinese equipments against people on streets of Tehran, may be that’s why!?
These guys have made a silly job. They have written- in Persian- ” Iranian Cyber army has been established to fight back against Zionist and pro-democracy websites”
Now tell me? Is your website either Zionist or pro-democracy ?
These guys are unassumingly stupid, They do not even know their target, nor hacking ( using DNS to hack a website ? my dead grandpa could do that)
Go back and review your books kids, we will soon get rid of you in Iran. I hope Chinese Government stop supporting this vicious Regime and stop providing them tools and techniques to suppress people.
They have written- in Persian- ” Iranian Cyber army has been established to fight back against Zionist and pro-democracy websites”
Now tell me? Is your website either Zionist or pro-democracy ?
These guys are unassumingly stupid, They do not even know their target, nor hacking ( using DNS to hack a website ? my dead grandpa could do that)
I hope Chinese Government stop supporting this vicious Regime and stop providing them tools and techniques to suppress people
to hell with baidu, for profits it erned for the chinese gov for the last several yrs. i use bing btw and im not feeling micro neither soft.
Homepage is accessible in BJ as well we second level domain.
possibly done by “sepah” (revoloutinary guard) cyber team which filters and controls the Internet in Iran.
the persian text say ” dear Hossein” which refers to imam hossein the third shiite imam who martyred around 13 centuries ago and is reseected among moslems especially shias.his anniversary (Ashura)was 2 weeks ago and iranian rezhime killed around 37 people in that religous day that was the first time in iran history.
Only the main page and the main search function is running. When I click on other functions such as image search, video search, log in page, etc, it always redirects me to the main page.
Hell
ACCESSIBLE NOW IN SHANDONG , CHINA
我很气愤
为什么偏偏攻击我们中国网站
我们中国人好欺负是不是
受损失的是我们啊，想玩玩不了，想搜搜不了
多好多方便的一个网站，就这样糟蹋了
您是不是五毛呀？百度是中国网站嘛？
支持反攻伊朗政府网站
S13，which five party do you belong to？？
Not accessible from shenzhen,china
晕啊
还在打拉锯战呢
这帮野种黑客可真够嚣张的啊
丧心病狂啊
我们中国哪里对不起你们伊朗了啊
莫名其妙啊
1月12日，在百度无法访问后，瑞星公司安全专家分析，此次攻击黑客利用DNS记录篡改的方式，与此前微博网站Twitter遭受的攻击形式相同。
瑞星专家表示，在本次事件中，黑客绕开了百度本身的安全保护，而攻击了DNS管理服务器，导致了此次攻击的严重后果。网民访问百度时，会被重定向到一个位于荷兰的IP地址，百度旗下所有子域名均无法正常访问。
据多为网友反映，百度至今无法访问，是由于伊朗黑客持续攻击所致，并与安全技术人员与黑客展开了拉锯战。以下为事件简要回顾：
1月12日早上7时许，百度出现访问中断的情况，查询域名baidu.com的WHOIS信息后发现百度域名出现变化。之后Baidu.com的DNS服务器被更换，同时主域名已经被解析到一个荷兰的IP，并且访问百度旗下子域名会被跳转到雅虎的错误页面，WHOIS数据也正在不断被刷新中。
百度DNS服务器于11日曾被修改为(Name Server: YNS1.YAHOO.COM Name Server: YNS2.YAHOO.COM)，修改时间信息为“Updated Date: 11-jan-2010”，而此前百度的DNS为DNS.BAIDU.COM。
8点20分，有网友称曾经被定向到一个网页“Iranian Cyber Army”上。
8点30分，有网友表示百度DNS数据已经被改回，但WHOIS数据依然没有刷新。
9点10分，网友反映，被转向的伊朗页面显示“This account is suspended”，并更新一系列图片。
9点15分，图片IP解析出地址为 pink2.warez-host.com，网页快照显示其数据中心在伊朗、荷兰与德国，提供“离岸主机托管服务”。之后怀疑是由于访问量激增，该主页服务器访问失败。
9点20分，百度登上Alexa热门排行榜首位。
9点40分，baidu.com的DNS再次被修改为hostgator.com，之后又被改回来。
9点50分至今，DNS数据拉锯战进行中，百度和黑客相继对此改动。
瑞星安全专家认为，这是自百度建立以来，所遭遇的持续时间最长、影响最严重的黑客攻击。根本原因在于目前互联网域名的DNS管理服务器安全性未受到应有的重视。
瑞星提醒各大网络公司及相关域名管理机构，使用安全可靠的DNS服务器管理自己的域名，并且注意跟进DNS的相关漏洞信息，更新最新补丁，加固服务器，同时保护自己的重要机密信息安全，避免域名管理权限被窃取。（完）
the relationship between Iran and China is good.Maybe it’s not Iranian ,but some countries that want to overthrow Iran Government ！that’s a conspiracy！
NOT accessible from Halifax, Canada
Its still not accessible from India
i can’t live without Baidu….
伊朗黑客激怒广大中国网民~~~~
后果~~~~~~非常严重！！！！
anger the Chinese Internet user is a very serious problem~~~
agree..
agree…
it done by “sepah” (revoloutinary guard) cyber team which filters and controls the Internet in Iran.
the persian text say ” dear Hossein” which refers to imam hossein the third shiite imam who martyred around 13 centuries ago and is reseected among moslems especially shias.his anniversary (Ashura)was 2 weeks ago and iranian rezhime killed around 37 people in that religous day that was the first time in iran history
these hackers are really silly barbarians.
they think that they are promoting their cause, but what they are really doing is making more enemies with the rest of the world!
agree
These guys have made a silly job. They have written- in Persian- ” Iranian Cyber army has been established to fight back against Zionist and pro-democracy websites”
well done iranian cyber army!
I am a chinese, but I hate baidu, it’s a internet garbage company!
there is NO reason to hate baidu
you just havn’t got to know it well
It’s a garbage company violating copyright and is an inferior product who lies about it’s popularity and readership.
The only good thing they did recently was change their ranking from bribed– sorry i meant bidding to algorithm based but I have yet to see a change in the results.
They have a lot of work to do.
Personally I don’t believe in what you say.
i rather enjoy the various service it provides. one cannot deny all of its high quality services due to some minor faults. no place in the world is perfect anyway. as for this comment i think its more than denying the company’s positive contributions. it’s simply a garbage insult.
it’s completely evil to prosper on someone else’s misfortune. sympathy with baidu..
look at all these immoral + selfish comments…
really makes me sick!
All I got to say is…..”Haha sucked in Baidu!”
if you don’t want to use it then leave it alone… no one is forcing you to use baidu
Sorry, I can’t use it. It’s been hacked. *chortle*
I mean don’t use it even after it recovered.
ok you know what, i rather enjoy the various service it provides. one cannot deny all of its high quality services due to some minor faults. no place in the world is perfect anyway.
This must be the best moment of you life!
Still not available here in Canada!!
I have waited for several hours already.
I wish my account and all the information within it will not be lost by the end.
accessible from Jaipur, India
username and password is required when login
I think it is just wonderful that Chinese netizens don’t know why Iranians are angry at Chinese. The less they know about why people feel that way, the more harmonious China will be.
If you follow the story of the Iranian Green Movement uprising, you’ll see that Chinese activists have joined the cause, starting a Twitter hashtag #CN4Iran (China For Iran) and teaming up with the international hashtag #IranElection to send their support to the Iranian freedom fighters from China.
It’s doubtful whether these “Iranian Cyber Army” hacks are actually coming from the Iranian government, but they are certainly coming from someone who follows the Iranian Green Movement’s online activist community, and has a desire to intimidate or harass the activists.
I personally think it’s probably jaded script kiddies who are upset that Anonymous and other “chaos” groups are coming to the defense of the Iranians, an activity which certain antisocial individuals might despise simply because it is not amusing enough for their taste.
smart person！
yeessssssss.
we can.
beravo.
only iran,
down with israel
next goal: thenextweb.com
yes. we can.
only iran & iranian
available from Germany
“Exactly why The Iranian Cyber Army has decided to target Baidu.com is unknown but sources say it might be in relation to Iran’s nuclear ambitions, although no one is certain.”
What a great conclussion. Plain stupid!
黑的好
I disagree
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NOT accessible from Vancouver, Canada
Actually, only the front page is accessible now, but all the other functions are still NOT accessible from here in Canada (so the website as a whole is still mainly inaccessible to me). I have tried to view it from many different computers (of different IP addresses) within various locations here in Vancouver (i.e. school, home, library, etc.), but they all show the same situations.
There are lots and lots of Chinese people here in Vancouver. So please tell them to fix it for us ASAP.
i can’t even log on
still no signs of turning for the better..
the site now is still as inaccessible as it was yesterday (vancouver)
Baidu.com is working here in The Netherlands
baidu is working now.
IT IS FULL OF ERRORS NOW!
(logos can’t be displayed, links direct me to the wrong places, only 2 or 3 functions out of the 62 functions are availabe, the images displayed by image searches are all red crosses, logging on screen is unavailable, etc……)
If the hacker is standing in front of me I would definitely have killed him.
Google Vs. The Peoples Republic Of China/Baidu
It look’s Like “Tit For Tat” ; my “Google” crashed and it now “Baidu” has crashed…..
Google has 50 Million Un-Happy Customers In China alone and that only represents less than
23% of the total market……Baidu has 77% of
the balance and they have now crashed big-time!
What Will Red China Do Next ? What Will The Obama/Biden Do Next ? We Are Truly Living In Interesting Times…..IBM left China altogether , years ago , when they got totally fed up with their “Knock-Off” industry , which
duplicated , all of their manufactured personal computers , perhaps 5 to 1 .
I think that Google , is absolutely right if it totally withdraws from Red China and all their anti-ethical business behaviour.
Chinese hackers are retaliating they have hacked into another Iranian website http://www.hrmbook.ir/
this site is not in top 100,000 site in alexa!
i don’t think we can compare baidu 8th popular site in world with this site.
they wrote the name of 3rd Imam (Hosain in shia islam- امام حسین)
Iran actually doesn't have such an army. The government of Iran pays skilled hackers of China or probably Russia to do the job for them. The reason of Hacking Baidu is just to mislead people to the fact that the hacker are not located in China but are in Iran.
Assume that you are hacker, you receive an offer of $10,000 or more from an unknown person for hacking some websites. Won't you hack them? Remember that you are a hacker and hackers often hack!
lol
there is such army in IRAN.
it is not just 1 Cyber army it is 3!!!
they get about $20,000 from the Govt…
the 3 of them are:
Cyber Army
Cyber Sepah
Cyber Basig
Don't comment about something that you don't know anything about!!!
interesting, I don’t know if this is true. what is the purpose of doing that?
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