I’ve Been Hacked by the Iranians!

My pretty-much dead website waygate.com (which I’m not linking to because it’s got malware right now), where I was keeping an ever-expanding list of science links, hasn’t been updated in over six months. So it makes sense that I wouldn’t notice this has taken over it:

Waygate.com Hacked

There was a momentary “WHA!?!?” moment upon seeing this, but once I verified the hackers hadn’t taken down any of the other accounts I host, I calmed down, and thought about it.

How freakin’ cool is this???

They uploaded a 3kb “index.htm” file to the site, which my anti-virus software gives me a malware alert when I try to download it, and I get an error when I try to delete it. I’ve submitted a trouble ticket to my host, and leave it in their hands.

Apparently these guys are pretty good at this, as a search for “MazHaR_FasHisT” reveals:

Google Results for “MazHaR_FasHisT”

Maybe I should upset about this, but they haven’t done any real damage, and I get a glimpse of the artists at work.

Note: As someone who works in IT Security pointed out, these are probably not really Iranians.