During the last days, several high profile domains have been defaced including domains from two prominent security companies. In addition to these, high profile domains such as alexa.com, whatsapp.com and redtube.com were also defaced. From our quick analysis It does not seem that the actual webserver has been compromised, the most possible attack vector was that the DNS have been hijacked.
When looking into this, there are some quite obvious traces but nothing that really confirms what the hackers did; or what kind of information they were able to obtain. When analyzing previous compromises and defaces it seems that there is a "new" trend within hacking groups and defacers to go for the DNS or domain registrars instead of compromising the actual webserver. When quickly analyzing the domain there were two indicators that stood out.
via Hackers target high profile domains - Securelist.
Read on for the details and the two interesting indicators.