Hackers hit Google’s search engine in Malaysia with an attack that redirected users to a separate website, according to reports.
The site google.com.my was unavailable to some users after the cyberattackers hijacked the site in what is known as a DNS redirect attack. Visitors caught in the middle landed on a page that read “Google Malaysia hacked by TiGER-M@TE. #Bangladeshi Hacker.”
{mosads}“We’re aware that some users are having trouble connecting to google.com.my, or are being directed to a different website,” Google said in a statement.
“Google services for the google.com.my domain are not compromised. We’ve reached out to the organisation responsible for managing this domain name and hope to have the issue resolved.”
While unlikely to inflict serious damage, cyberattacks like the one that hit Google’s Malaysia page reveal that hackers can disrupt Web services offered by even the biggest tech companies.
This was not the first time Google’s Asian search engines were targeted by hackers. In a similar incident, Google’s Vietnam website was rendered unavailable in February after hackers directed visitors to a site that appear to sell cyberattack tools.