Update 2: From FrSIRT (French Security Incident Response Team): “Troj/HackerD-AO is a Trojan for the Windows Platform. Troj/HackerD-AO is a stealthing program and is used to hide other programs, ports and files from the user.”  Maybe that was what happened?

Update 1: It’s back up now.  I did a Google search on the “HACKERD BY THE RED BUTTERFLYS” stuff, and got a lot of hits.  One site I found had all its content replaced with the same message.  One security site mentioned a virus called “HackerD,” though.  So maybe that was what happened.

Original Post:

Does anyone know if Newsbusters was hacked?

I was reading a post on Newsbusters.org earlier this morning and everything was just fine.  (I think—but can’t be sure—that I was reading something about the Bill Maher-Huffington Post stuff.)  Then I checked again a few minutes ago and the page loaded, but there was no content (posts) on it.  I started to wonder if they’d been hacked….

And then there was this:

Here’s a close-up of the text:

Note:  It came back up for a while, but the internal links seemed to be broken.  Now it’s gone altogether—just the old 404-redirect page showing.

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