Trump campaign website defaced by scammers

Hackers broke into a website used in Donald Trump ‘s campaign website on Tuesday, the news is worrying because comes a few days before Election Day.

Hackers defaced a website used in Donald Trump’s campaign website, donaldjtrump.com, displaying the following message:

“This site was seized.” “The world has had enough of the fake-news spreaded daily by president donald j trump.”

The hack was first reported Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler on Twitter, it took place shortly before 4 PM Pacific time.

The news is worrying because comes ahead of the incoming Election Day. Hackers likely gained access to the web server back-end and inserted obfuscated JavaScript to display the above message.

The website was quickly restored, Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh confirmed that no sensitive data was compromised as result of the attack,

“The Trump campaign website was defaced and we are working with law enforcement authorities to investigate the source of the attack,” Murtaugh said.

The attackers don’t appear to be politically motivated, according to the website Techcrunch the site was hacked by scammers with the purpose to collect hard-to-trace cypto-currency Monero.

The scammers claimed to have confidential information on Trump and his relatives, they provided two Monero addresses where transfer funds to receive the alleged information.

The scammers instructed people to send crypto-currency to one address if they wanted the strictly classified information released and to another to keep it secret.

Experts noticed that page was signed with a PGP public key corresponding to an email address at a non-existent domain (planet.gov).

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Trump election day)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.