Baidu - 'Google' China has been defeated for 4 hours

While Google claims that Google's Chinese search site has been attacked by hackers and threatened to leave the market, Baidu, Google's Chinese rival, has also been knocked out by hackers.

According to the China Daily electronic newspaper reported today, China's largest search engine Baidu yesterday was knocked out by hackers for about four hours - the heaviest attack since Baidu was founded in 1999. now.

Baidu said it restored the service at 6 pm (January 12).

The hacker group, claiming to be the Iranian virtual army ( Iranian Cyber ​​Army ), attacked Baidu's home page and left an Iranian message saying that the move was to protest foreign involvement in the country. Iranian politics.

The attack is similar to the attack tool that defeated Twitter last month, also by a group claiming the Iranian Cyber ​​Army to take responsibility.

Baidu screenshots are hacked and information related to Baidu and China's online search market share.(Photo: China Daily)

Baidu CEO Li Yanhong said it was an unprecedented incident and Baidu released an apology for Chinese netizens for causing trouble for users. The statement emphasized that the attackers did not try to break into Baidu's server but attacked Baidu's domain name management company in the US. ' This is a new and alarming phenomenon [for network security] ', Baidu's announcement wrote.

At around 7:40 am (local time), Baidu was caught in offline mode and on many occasions appeared on the homepage displaying a picture with Iranian flag, a message in Iranian language and a torn Israeli flag, accessing Baidu. .com was redirected to a website located in the Netherlands.

The Iranian Embassy in Beijing objected to any speculation that the hacker group was involved in the Iranian government and warned that someone could take advantage of the attack to sabotage close ties. friendship between China and Iran.

According to Baidu, attackers ambushed their website by changing the domain name resolution (DNS) information for the Baidu.com domain after capturing the hosting servers for this information. Register.com is a US company that manages this information.

Liu Siyu, a Rising engineer, a Chinese security software company, said that anyone with good skills could attack websites in this way and claim to be the Iranian Cyber ​​Army.

Information about Baidu hacked appears while Google has just announced whether to decide whether to withdraw from the Chinese market after finding out that cyber attacks on the company were suspected of originating from China. . In general, if Google actually withdraws from the Chinese market, the beneficiaries are Baidu and other small competitors such as Tencent, Alibaba .