In a report by The Hackers Media, several high profile websites are hacked by a hacker with an online handle “r00x.”
Though its not confirm, the problem could be trace up to Ugandan top level domain name registrar, hit with DNS poisoning.
Here is a list of domains impacted of the attack:
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http://pepsi-cola.ug
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http://acer.ug
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http://norton.ug
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http://googlegroups.ug
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http://hackers.co.ug
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http://microsoft.org.ug
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http://root.co.ug
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http://hackers.com.ug
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http://nokia.com.ug
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http://avast.ug
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http://paypal.com.ug
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http://cisco.com.ug
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http://hp.com.ug
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http://expedia.ug
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http://sony.org.ug
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http://kaspersky.com.ug
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http://search.com.ug
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http://intel.co.ug
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http://skype.ug
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http://yahoo.com.ug
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http://gmail.com.ug
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http://hotmail.com.ug
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http://msn.com.ug
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http://google.or.ug
Be informed that not all of those websites are real and owned by those companies. In one case, domain microsoft.org.ug is not by the redmond based company, Microsoft.