SecNews has confirmed the revelation it made a few hours ago about the alleged “hackers” under the name “Macedonian United hackers”. Specifically, SecNews revealed the identity of one of them as you can read in our related article [here].
This particular group of Skopjeans, consisting of young people aged 18-26, who consider themselves at least Edward Snowden, has often created frequent problems on random websites that they target with very simple methods. Using tools and zero substantive knowledge, they proceed to alterations in favor of the Skopje state by posting messages. In some of the attacks, credit cards are even leaked from the servers they attack.
[alert variation=”alert-success”]As the Greek researchers who work closely with SecNews characteristically tell us, “their methodology is at least childish, leaving a multitude of traces, and we are surprised that they have not been identified and brought to justice by the law enforcement authorities of European countries or the USA.”[/alert]
The revelation of SecNews, with the power that the medium gives, seems to have created an unprecedented disturbance in the Skopje scriptkids team. Since the morning, via Google Translate, 36 terminals/computers in Skopje (probably members of the Skopje team) have been analyzing the revealed article.The fact that the website revealed information about someone involved in hacking cases both in Greece and abroad (Europe-USA) alarmed the team, which since the morning tried to identify weaknesses with automated tools in order to attack the website and “take down” the article (ed. joking)
Such is their "fury" regarding the revelation made by Secnews in collaboration with distinguished and highly respected Greek researchers, that during their attempt, they were detected by the website's security systems, leaving a multitude of data and electronic traces, since they had not properly configured their VPN and Tor clients.
[blockquote]To help Greek and foreign law enforcement authorities, we are revealing the IP address of the attacker who in recent days (although hidden via VPN/Tor services) has been scanning websites in Greece with the aim of altering and posting a message. Greek experts identified the attacker's electronic trace (IP address) to Greek websites by mistake, which was traced to IP 77.28.72.17 – 19.05 Greek time. The IP in question belongs to the state provider MT.NET.MK and is a home ADSL line. The attacker was desperately trying for hours to discover weaknesses using "broken" website control software (Acunetix/Nessus). [/blockquote]
SecNews, the most reliable Greek website on IT security, collaborates with the most distinguished independent IT security researchers in Greece both for the security of our website and in the evaluation of the information we receive. Therefore, any actions by Skopjeans or others will in no way stop or limit the publications-disclosures that we make frequently regarding current issues in the field of IT security.
We estimate that with the information that has been made public, primarily the Greek and foreign competent law enforcement authorities will examine the actions of this criminal group.
