Imageshack Hacked By Anti-Full Disclosure Movement

snoopy · Oct 15, 2012

I use photobucket for graphics storage - lo & behold I discovered today that they installed a beta version and I cannot find my stuff and too boot, some codes were unavailable. I started hunting for another host and discovered the following. Oddly enough I was thinking of ImageShack. So much for that!!

ImageShack hacked by anti-full disclosure movement

During the weekend, ImageShack, among the Web's top ten most popular free image hosting services got compromised, with the millions of images hosted on it redirected to a single one explaining why it was hacked.

The anti-sec group responsible for the compromise describes itself as a "movement dedicated to the eradication of full-disclosure", has also threatened web sites and communities publishing exploits in a full-disclosure fashion.

The message left in the form of an image reads:

"Full-disclosure is the disclosure of exploits publicly - anywhere. The security industry uses full-disclosure to profit and develop scare-tactics to convince people into buying their firewalls, anti-virus software, and auditing services.
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Meanwhile, script kiddies copy and paste these exploits and compile them, ready to strike any and all vulnerable servers they can get a hold of. If whitehats were truly about security this stuff would not be published, not even exploits with silly edits to make them slightly unusable."
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Whereas this radical -- and illegal -- approach of spreading a philosophy aims to put the spotlight on the full disclosure debate for yet another time, things have greatly changed during the past couple of years, potentially rendering their efforts pointless, at least from the perspective of using zero day exploits for committing cybercrime. The very notion that the well known exploits-repository web sites are the original point of publication for a particular exploit is naive. Case in point - the recent thought to be "zero day" Video ActiveX Control flaw, has been reported to Microsoft over an year ago, but it became an inseparable part of a Chinese-based malware campaign earlier this month.
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Read more here: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/imageshack-hacked-by-anti-full-disclosure-movement/3725

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