The official website of International Council of E-Commerce Consultants, popularly known as EC-Council, is hacked. The hacker had inserted an image showing Edward Snowden's Passport and left following message on the www.ec-council.org website:
The above image shows the email message supposedly written by Edward Snowden to cehapp . CEHAPP is meant for international applicants to go for the Application Process Eligibility:
"The name used by the hacker - Eugene Belford - is taken from the movie Hackers (1995) . The picture inserted is:
owned by certified unethical software security professional
-Eugene Belford
"
CCIn Fig.1: Defaced image taken from the EC-Council Official website |
The above image shows the email message supposedly written by Edward Snowden to cehapp . CEHAPP is meant for international applicants to go for the Application Process Eligibility:
CCIn Fig.2: Screenshot of the Google Search of CEHAPP |
Now visiting the same website is showing the following message:
Malwarebytes Anti-malware blocked access to a potentially malicious website: 93.174.95.82Type: outgoing
Port: 52145, Process: avp.exe
CCIn Fig. 3: Malwarebytes Anti-malware message popped when tried to open www.eccouncil.org |
EC-Council's website is again hacked and following image is posted now:
Further recommended readings:
CCIn Fig. 4: EC Council Website Hacked and Defaced Once Again |
- Who hacked EC-Council? => http://r000t.com/who-hacked-ec-council/
- HTP Zine 5 => http://www.exploit-db.com/papers/25306/
- EC-Council - A lesson in Bad Incident Response => https://s.arciszewski.me/blog/2014/02/ec-council-incident-response