After Lizard Squad's attacks on its new-found prey have been deployed, the Malaysian Airline website plastered an image of a top hat-donning lizard (the hacker group's icon on its Twitter account). There was also a set of mocking words on top of the photo that said, "404 - plane not found." On the bottom part of the page, the notorious hacking organization declared its newest attack with the text, "Hacked by Lizard Squad - official Cyber Caliphate."
Malaysian Airlines managed to get around the problem hours after the hacking with the help of CyberSecurity Malaysia and the Ministry of Transport. In turn, the site was made fully operational 22 hours after the attack. It then confirmed through its official Facebook account that a DNS (Domain Name System) attack has struck the site, redirecting visitors of the page to the hacked one that Lizard Squad set up.
But in the same post, Malaysian Airlines assured that its web servers remain "intact" and that flight bookings and user data were untouched. However, it seems that the show is still not over. Lizard Squad took to Twitter (as it always does) how its latest target is "lying" about the breach of its user data security, thus leading it to unveil the next phase of the hacking, which is to "dump some loot" foraged from the hacked site of the national airline.
Lizard Squad seems to have moved on (or at least left gaming companies alone for a while) to look for another victim. Sadly, the airlines, which has yet to overcome the mysterious disappearance of the yet-to-be-found MH370 and the shot down of MH17 in Ukraine, was on the receiving end.
Last year, Lizard Squad also attacked Sony and Microsoft by knocking PSN and Xbox Live offline on Christmas Day. This led to arrests of three of its alleged members and uncovered the real purpose behind their actions, which is to promote their DDoS Stresser site that helps paying customers do what they did on the tech giants.
