New Year Disaster?… what happened to these sites?… are they down?… hacked or what?… 2012′s First Cyber Attack…

by Nishant Arora on 1/01/2012







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For those who are not willing to go through the entire post. The gist is you need to reset your router, especially if you are on the MTNL network, else just comment, I will try to figure out yours. Just Reset and re configure, you will be back online in no time. No Anti-Virus, No ANti-Malware or any other crappy software will help you out!

hi,

First of All, Happy New Year Guys!… (I still feel, New Year is just a concept, and nothing ground braking, its just the creators of calender could have done that in any month, more of that later…)

I was shocked… two websites… gone… while surfing in the same session… what happened to the?… God Knows!…

SITE#1: SnapDeal.com It is very popular deal site, dunno about other countries or its existence there, but here in India, its a hit.

snapdeal 1024x575 New Year Disaster?... what happened to these sites?... are they down?... hacked or what?... 2012s First Cyber Attack...

snapdeal hacked down gone

Weird thing: its showing adsense and showing its own Ads

SITE#2: Torrentz.eu A very popular torrent search engine, I visit this almost 10 times a day!

torrentz 1024x575 New Year Disaster?... what happened to these sites?... are they down?... hacked or what?... 2012s First Cyber Attack...

torrentz.eu hacked down gone

Weird thing: Its showing symptoms similar to SnapDeal.

What’s going on here on the internet, is it hack, the hosting is gone… DDoS attacks, what?… I posted onto SnapDeal’s Facebook wall, but dunno what exactly happened. Hope there is some solid reasoning for it!

Warrior Post

:: ConFuzed::

UPDATE (JAN 1, 2011 2.30PM):

Over at the WarriorForum, many user speculated, that I was a victim of Browser Hijack, but I do not suspect, because….

  1. My system is clean
  2. all computers on my network are showing the same
  3. the virus if it happened to be, wouldn’t have been so powerful enough to hijack all the browsers, all OSs… man this would be crazy…

I suspect, its something in my ISPs network….

Screenshot at 2012 01 01 140351 1024x575 New Year Disaster?... what happened to these sites?... are they down?... hacked or what?... 2012s First Cyber Attack...

snapdeal still down

UPDATE (JAN 1, 2011 4.15PM):

A user at facebook, Yogesh Pandey, shared similar results, but he claims he has it the same way using MTNL (my ISP) and AirTel Data Pack. But he adds it was over soon and it is working fine.

Screen: Yahoo gone too

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yahoo down

UPDATE (JAN 1, 2011 4.30PM): Another Symptom seen… the router (DNA-A212) seems to be unresponsive, it’s passwords have been automatically changed, to something unknown. To which Yogesh agrees, but the thing which could not be understood is that the problem also occurs while accessing from a Mobile phone using Airtel Data. Weird!… Planning to reset the router, might help!…

UPDATE (JAN 1, 2011 5.15PM):

  1. After the router reset, the websites are working fine on the desktop connected using cables, but not on my laptop.
  2. The IP address to which these websites are redirecting is 69.167.176.227

UPDATE (JAN 1, 2011 4.30PM): Another Symptom seen… the router (DNA-A212) seems to be unresponsive, it’s passwords have been automatically changed, to something unknown. To which Yogesh agrees, but the thing which could not be understood is that the problem also occurs while accessing from a Mobile phone using Airtel Data. Weird!… Planning to reset the router, might help!…

UPDATE (JAN 1, 2011 5.50PM): Issues Resolved… Router Reset+Caches cleansed… everything back to normal… Still curious to know what or who kicked this.

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  • Ajay singh

    I am also having this same problem……plzz someone help me….

  • Neutron1985

    You saved my day…Reset your Router and revert back the setting you have configured and voila you are back in business

    • http://nishantarora.in/ Nishant Arora

      Congrats!…

    • http://nishantarora.in/ Nishant Arora

      just reset the router… it shall solve the problem…

    • http://nishantarora.in/ Nishant Arora

      what is the status now?…


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