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Metasploitis an open-source toolkit widely used by both hackers and securityadmins to test for website vulnerabilities. But visitors to the site onMonday were redirected to a page announcing the site was "hacked bysunwear ! just for fun", as recorded by Sunbelt Software.
Unidentified miscreants used an ARP poisoning attack aimed at thenetwork of Metasploit's hosting provider in order to pull off the hack.The Metasploit project was quickly restored. H D Moore, the creator ofthe project, explained what happened in response to online reports of the hack.
"Another customer on the same ISP was compromised and used to ARPpoison all servers in that subnet. I corrected the problem by setting astatic ARP entry and notifying the ISP. To make it very clear - themetasploit.com servers were not compromised, nor have been to thisdate," he said.