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Lizard Squad Hits Malaysia Airlines Website

Posted by Soulskill on from the kicking-them-when-they're-down dept.

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."

41 comments

  1. Hacking "Collaborative"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What the hell is a "Hacking Collaborative" supposed to be? They are bunch of douchebags that used a botnet to DDOS xbl and psn, anybody could do that and that is not "hacking". Now they have replaced an image on a website, big fucking whoop.

    1. Re:Hacking "Collaborative"? by ArcadeMan · · Score: 3, Funny

      Now they have replaced an image on a website, big fucking whoop.

      That's still better than most business clients using a CMS.

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    2. Re:Hacking "Collaborative"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Says the basement dwelling fuckwit with cheetos in his neckbeard.

    3. Re: Hacking "Collaborative"? by MichaelMacDonald · · Score: 1

      Says the moron skiddie extortionist.

  2. Lizard Squad targeted Slashdot too by ArcadeMan · · Score: 5, Funny

    But after seeing Beta, they thought someone else hit first.

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  3. Probably about Ukraine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Lizard Squad is using rented Russian botnets. I'm sure their benefactors "gently suggested" they give some attention to Malaysia Airlines.

    1. Re:Probably about Ukraine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm intrigued by these botnet rentals.

      How much are the late return fees?

    2. Re:Probably about Ukraine by mythosaz · · Score: 2

      Be Kind: Rewind.

    3. Re:Probably about Ukraine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      You got it backward. Their service is, apparently, to "rent out" botnets. These attacks are their idea of "advertising"

  4. /. yesterdays headlines today by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    a day late

  5. @MAS email dump by retroworks · · Score: 0

    If the dump of the Malaysia Airlines emails actually shows some cover up or incompetence in the disappeared jet, LizardSquad may be acting as a kind of whistleblower. If the emails are just a bunch of seat assignments and flight bookings, they just look mean for kicking on Malaysia Air when it's down.

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    1. Re:@MAS email dump by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Please stop trying to find a way to validate what they do.

    2. Re:@MAS email dump by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Doesn't really matter what is uncovers. They are 100% in the wrong, period. But I'm sure you'd change your tune if they hacked you and revealed some old skeleton in your closet. A whistleblower would be someone with inside knowledge and releases it. These guys are just 100% doing the wrong thing, regardless of their intentions.

    3. Re:@MAS email dump by bloodhawk · · Score: 3, 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".

    4. Re:@MAS email dump by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Should the OP actually be modded down? While I agree with you, there does seem to be a distinction if a "whistleblowing" is involved

    5. Re: @MAS email dump by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Same fuckin thing cops do.

    6. Re:@MAS email dump by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      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.

    7. Re: @MAS email dump by bloodhawk · · Score: 1

      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.

    8. Re:@MAS email dump by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Um, since they don't work there, nor would they have inside knowledge without performing the illegal and immoral activities they perform, they are not whistleblowing anything, they are a bunch of basement living punks who work to justify their unethical actions.

  6. Wait, didn't these guys all just get arrested? by davydagger · · Score: 3, Informative

    Didn't these guys all just get arrested or something?

    1. Re:Wait, didn't these guys all just get arrested? by fustakrakich · · Score: 1

      Yes, but the name is still on the loose. Lock your doors.

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    2. Re:Wait, didn't these guys all just get arrested? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They didn't arrest the lizard, I just saw him on youtube

  7. These people are scum. by Harlequin80 · · Score: 3, Informative

    They are the epitome of the keyboard warrior bully spewing venom at people because they feel safe and anonymous behind their keyboards.

  8. You are scum. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    You are the epitome of the keyboard warrior bully spewing venom at people because your feel safe and pseudonymous behind your keyboard.

    1. Re:You are scum. by nester_vagabond · · Score: 1

      Venomception?

    2. Re:You are scum. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      oh touche, you wit, you wit you.

  9. Did they? by medv4380 · · Score: 2

    Or did the admin mess up the config files, and he's more than happy to let Lizard-Squad-we-claim-responsibility-more-often-than-North-Korea take the credit.

  10. Some men.... by Dega704 · · Score: 1

    just want to watch the world burn.

    1. Re:Some men.... by rmdingler · · Score: 1

      It's simple, We kill the Lizard, man.

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  11. Affiliated with ISIS? by jblues · · Score: 1

    I'm not familiar with this group. The Australian Murdoch press reported a few days ago that they're the official ISIS hacker group. Propaganda and/or fabrication to sell news?

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    1. Re:Affiliated with ISIS? by St.Creed · · Score: 2

      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.

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    2. Re:Affiliated with ISIS? by Neo-Rio-101 · · Score: 1

      They could be anybody. They could be KGB or CIA operatives masquerading as a teenage hacker group as part of their psy-ops.
      They could be Estonian basement dwelling nerds, Chinese spies, or it could be Julian Assange getting bored.

      We just don't know.

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    3. Re:Affiliated with ISIS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I could have swore that some of the members had been doxxed on pastebin. Maybe one or some have already become FBI stooges and are getting the others to commit illegal shit while racking up federal charges like the FBI did with Sabu.

    4. Re:Affiliated with ISIS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes. They're also the official DPRK, KGB and Illuminati (lizard=reptile!) hacker group.

  12. Bloomberg /= Murdoch by retroworks · · Score: 1

    Murdoch press means Rupert, I assumed

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  13. Ends and Means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    > NO, nothing validates what they do.

    Very much agreed. Same goes for Guantanamo, Abu Grahib, NSA, CIA, FBI, GCHQ, Putin, Obama, Cameron, Merkel -- and what not.

    We should do something about this.

  14. Hacker categories by TheBogBrushZone · · Score: 2

    Some "hackers" are black-hat, some are white-hat and some are just ass-hat.

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  15. Sandokan to the rescue! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Malaysians are quite belligerent people, they fought the japanese tooth and nail in WW2 and had a long nasty civil war / communist insurgency / guerilla uprising agains the britons / whatever in 1950s. If they lay their hands on the Lizard Squad, there will be no trial, but heads put on spikes in public.

    1. Re:Sandokan to the rescue! by fxsoap · · Score: 1

      I'm sure they will be lucky enough that the people who did it, will be in the US or UK

  16. Easy Target by Chelloveck · · Score: 1

    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.

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