Viasna HRC website hacked

The security agencies hacked the website of Viasna human rights centre.

Information on the main page was changed.

“The website of Viasna human rights centre has been attacked. The site's content was replaced. In particular, in an article saying that Andrei Kureichyk signed a petition against the death penalty, malefactors wrote that he supported  capital punishment. An article about the stance of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) was changed – they wrote it supported the state policy in Belarus,” human rights activist Tatsiana Raviaka wrote on her account in Facebook.

It should be reminded that the website “Belorusski Partizan” was recently hacked, and  the website charter97.org was attacked two days ago. The site remained blocked for a short time due to a DDoS attack, but the tech support team managed to cope with the problem. The analysis of the botnet involved in the attack shows the Russian-Belarusian-Ukrainian trace (more than 60% of IP addresses are Ukrainian and 30% are Belarusian).

The first time when our technical support team noticed suspicious activity and mass hacking attempts was a month ago (March 20). We also faced attempts to add the website to the database of infected websites on false reports.