Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (BBN)-The official website of national carrier Malaysia Airlines was hacked on Monday by a group calling itself the “Official Cyber Caliphate”.
The website, www.malaysiaairlines.com, currently shows a photograph of a lizard in a top hat and tuxedo, surrounded by the messages ‘404 – Plane Not Found’ and ‘Hacked by Lizard Squad – Official Cyber Caliphate’.
The hackers also listed three unverified Twitter account addresses and a recorded a rap song, reports http://tech.firstpost.com.
MAS was hit by twin air disasters last year: the disappearance of Flight MH370 in March and the shooting down of Flight MH17 a few months later. The government took the airline private late last year.
Earlier reports suggest that Lizard Squad, the hacking group that took down PSN and Xbox Live had started selling its distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack tool.
A DDoS attack is a method to overload a server with requests and eventually make its network or machine unavailable for its users.
With this tool called ‘Lizard Stresser’ anyone can take down a website or an online service.
BBN/SK/AKG- 26Jan15-12:30pm (BST)
