Hackers calling themselves NetDevilz temporarily hijacked the sites of key organizations that control routing of Net traffic and redirected them to a taunting page.

Visitors to the sites for the World Wide Web Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and the World Wide Web Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) were temporarily redirected Thursday daylight. The sites affected were iana.com, iana-servers.com, icann.com and icann.net, according to researchers at Zone-h.org, which monitors attacks.

A note at

the bogus site said, “You think that you control the domains but you don’t! Everybody knows wrong. We control the domains including ICANN! Don’t you believe us?”

IANA is responsible for managing the domain-name root system that translates domain names like newsfactor.com into IP addresses. ICANN oversees IANA.

The sites were redirected to the same IP address used last week in an attack on Photobucket.

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