Websites Defaced with Belarusian Bottled Water Company Content

It’s not often that we get the opportunity to write about website defacements on this blog. Defacements — where a website homepage is replaced with a hacker logo or some sort of political or religious message — are usually fairly run-of-the-mill and not particularly interesting.

However, we’ve recently observed a rash of website defacements that are just downright bizarre and warrant some investigation. Namely, that rather than a scary looking hacker logo found on defaced websites, visitors have been greeted by content which appears to have been scraped from the website of “one of the largest manufacturers of bottled drinking water” in Belarus:

Although there are only about 50 sites identified so far on the web, this infection/defacement is very out of character for most attackers engaged in defacements and is, to say the least, downright bizarre.

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