At 7:00 on January 12 more than the beginning, Baidu (baidu.com) can not access failure occurred a long time, it is understood that this is the largest since the founding Baidu access failure events, the failure spread to several provinces and cities nationwide.

User Baoliao called “Baidu home page is altered by Iranian cyber units”, followed by Some users even posted a picture Baidu domain name hijacking. 10:45, Baidu’s official statement: baidu.com domain name domain name registration by suppliers in the United States have been illegally tampered with, but baidu.com.cn still be accessible. 11 am, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong and other places the return of baidu.com part of the network access.

According to industry estimates, this network will give Baidu off at least half a day or more, the loss figure will be 700 million yuan. Some media reported that Baidu has been black for the event, Baidu CEO Robin Li, posted messages on baidu forum said, “unprecedented, unprecedented!”

It is not yet clear whether the site itself was compromised or its so-called DNS records.

DNS records are like a telephone book, converting website names like baidu.com into a sequence of numbers understandable by the internet.

“It’s possible someone changed the lookup, meaning whenever surfers entered baidu.com into their browsers they were instead taken to a website that wasn’t under the search engine’s control,” explained Mr Cluley.

It seems as if the hackers used the attack as an opportunity to create political graffiti rather than inflict real damage.

“If that third party website had contained malware then millions of computers could have been infected and identities stolen,” said Mr Cluley.

“Attacks like this are a reminder to everyone that you always need to have security scanning every webpage you visit, even if it’s a well-known legitimate website,” he added