American, Egyptian, and Israeli sites attacked - June 2010

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DATE:
2010-06

AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
Israel, Egypt, USA

AFFECTED SITES:
Pizza Hut, Egyptian governmental websites, and 50 Israeli websites including www.microsoft.co.il, hotmail.co.il, live.co.il, blogs.microsoft.co.il, coca-cola.co.il, www.coca-cola.co.il, travian.co.il, and www.bebo.co.il

EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
Defacement, downtime

SOURCE COUNTRY:
Turkey, others?

ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
n/a

TYPE OF ATTACK:
Defacement, DDoS?

ATTACK SPECIFICS:
n/a

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Multiple attacks protesting the Ashdod flotilla incident. The majority targeted domains ending in .co.il, with other victims (like Pizza Hut) probably determined by opportunity and visibility. Defacements included words against Israel, promoting Palestine.

URLS:
1. http://arabcrunch.com/2010/06/breaking-microsoft-sites-including-bing-and-hotmail-in-%E2%80%9Cisrael%E2%80%9D-temporally-hacked-cocacola-is-down.html
2. http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/ohad/archive/2010/06/10/some-of-the-microsoft-sites-in-israel-were-dns-hacked-today.aspx

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