According to recent reports, MI5’s official website has been hacked in a bid to steal the identities of visitors to the site, according to media reports.
The hackers, who called themselves Team Elite, rigged the site to download viruses onto the machines of anyone using the British intelligence services website, the Daily Express reported.
Paul Vlissidis, technical director of Secure Test NCC Group, said “While this attack is certainly embarrassing for MI5, most websites are actually ‘owned’ and operated by marketing functions. Even in security aware organisations these functions are rarely security specialists.”