Lizard Squad Hits Malaysia Airlines Website 41
An anonymous reader writes: Lizard Squad, the hacking collaborative that went after the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, and the North Korean internet last year, has now targeted Malaysia Airlines with an attack. Bloomberg links to images of the hacks (including the rather heartless 404 jab on its home page) and columnist Adam Minter wonders why Malaysia Airlines, which has had so much bad press in the past 12 months, was worthy of Lizard Squad's ire. In apparent answer, @LizardMafia (the org's reputed Twitter handle) messaged Mr. Minter this morning: "More to come soon. Side Note: We're still organizing the @MAS email dump, stay tuned for that."
Re:Hacking "Collaborative"? (Score:4, Funny)
That's still better than most business clients using a CMS.
Re: Hacking "Collaborative"? (Score:1)
Lizard Squad targeted Slashdot too (Score:5, Funny)
But after seeing Beta, they thought someone else hit first.
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Be Kind: Rewind.
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You got it backward. Their service is, apparently, to "rent out" botnets. These attacks are their idea of "advertising"
@MAS email dump (Score:1)
Re:@MAS email dump (Score:4, Interesting)
NO, nothing validates what they do. They belong in a jail, you get to validate criminal behaviour by saying "look what we found while being total pricks".
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you can't have a distinction here. That is like saying a bank robber can be excused if he happened to find criminal activity the bank manager was engaged in while he was robbing the bank. They are criminals.
Re: @MAS email dump (Score:1)
Same fuckin thing cops do.
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In some countries like the US maybe, but that doesn't make it anymore valid, rather irrelevant, you don't justify one set of criminal activity by pointing out that other criminals are doing something similar.
Wait, didn't these guys all just get arrested? (Score:4, Informative)
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Yes, but the name is still on the loose. Lock your doors.
These people are scum. (Score:4, Informative)
They are the epitome of the keyboard warrior bully spewing venom at people because they feel safe and anonymous behind their keyboards.
You are scum. (Score:1)
You are the epitome of the keyboard warrior bully spewing venom at people because your feel safe and pseudonymous behind your keyboard.
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Did they? (Score:3)
Some men.... (Score:2)
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Affiliated with ISIS? (Score:1)
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Whatever the Murdoch press reports, the opposite is probably the truth... but apart from that: they're a bunch of smalltime crooks trying to sell their botnet and some toolkit. Nothing more. So I'd say it's probably scaremongering.
Bloomberg /= Murdoch (Score:2)
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Hacker categories (Score:2)
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Easy Target (Score:2)
Why was Malaysia Airlines "worthy" of the attack? At a guess, I'd say because they were an easy target. It's unlikely that MAS was specifically targeted. They probably poked at every company big enough to have a recognizable name, and MAS was just the first to be vulnerable.