“Hacked By GUARD_FB” WordPress Dashboard Attack

Posted December 11th, 2008, in: Computer Problems and Fixes| Evil Robots| Technology

This attack on older versions of WordPress installs a file called index.html in the wp-admin directory so that when a user logs into their dashboard, the browser loads it rather than the index.php file that comes with WordPress. The result is when trying to access the WordPress Dashboard, instead you get a page which says “Hacked By Guard_FB” followed by a graphic of a silhouette of a man with his with his fist in the air which reads “THE TURK PROTEST…”

Appears in place of the Dashboard in WordPress

The page then goes on with some left wing political stuff, and claims to be affiliated with a site called ateskes.org and is signed “King Defacer”

I’d rather see hacking going on for the sake of activism than for worthless spam, but this thing sucks. The blog on which I encountered this was not particularly political and so I suspect that the makers of this attack aren’t picking and choosing who they attack, which makes it evil crap.

Bottom line, keep WordPress up to date, stay on top of your comment moderation, and use WordPress’ Cookie-Encryption “Security Keys” feature in your wp-config file.

If this has happened to you, I recommend deleting your spam/comments in moderation (if there’s too many, check here), upgrading WordPress, then changing your Dashboard passwords. Of course, also delete the file called index.html in your wordpress directory’s wp-admin folder.

Full text of “Hacked By Guard_FB” Dashboard page is as follows:

Hacked By GUARD_FB

Ateskes.Org

We Accuse:

G.W. Bush, T. Blair, and E. Olmert, the chief executives of the imperialist, colonialist, belligerent policies and actions of the US-British-Israeli coalition,

of perpetrating the composite crimes of war of annihilation, occupation, and the premeditated mass murder of children and civilians in Palestine and Lebanon,

following their atrocities in Afghanistan and Iraq and foreboding the same in Syria and Iran,

sinking into utter barbarity in transgression of all universal norms of human morality.

The Following Are Also Responsible:

All government employees and agents, advisors, civil and military functionaries who partake in collective and individual responsibility in these states;

the legislative and judicial branches that have not curbed the criminal activities of their governments as they violate basic human rights, most significantly the right to live, and as they trample international legal norms and commit crimes against humanity;

universities, media, intellectuals, workers and citizens who do not restrain and sanction their governments through domestic democratic channels;

UNITED NATIONS and other national and international bodies that actively or passively support, aid and abet this illegality, crude force, and aggression –all bear responsibility for the catastrophe that is taking place.

We Demand:

An immediate cessation of this horror,

the due trial, in international tribunals, as well as in the courts of conscience and history,

of, above all, Bush, Blair, and Olmert as perpetrators of crimes against humanity,

of their respective government agents and supporters,

of the chief executives and state personnel in all countries that have been accomplices to these crimes against humanity,

and their removal from office by the lawful and democratic initiatives of their respective citizenry.

And We Declare:

We stand at a critical juncture in human history.

These aggressive, colonialist, exploitative, and militarist practices are negating the achievements of humanity, destroying the basic pillars of international law, and thus, threatening the present and the future of this planet.

We refuse to submit to this brutal force and be accomplices to its crimes.

We refuse to give in to the (il)logic of blood-fed economies and lethal war machines.

We declare that we will continue to struggle for a different world.

www.Ateskes.Org

King Defacer