14 DAY TRIAL // The cyber conflict between Malaysian and Filipino hacktivists appears to have toned down, but over the last few days, well over 100 websites have been breached or taken down on both sides.
After Anonymous Malaysia launched distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against several Philippines government websites, Filipino hackers went on the offensive, defacing a large number of commercial websites.
On Saturday, Anonymous Malaysia apologized for the attacks and urged Filipino hacktivists to back down. However, the next day, Malaysian hackers defaced a subdomain of Globe, a major Philippines telecommunications company, The Pinoy Tech News informs.
The incident was followed by DDOS attacks being launched against at least 11 Malaysian government websites.
The Pinoy Tech News reports that a total of around 157 websites from the Philippines and around 170 from Malaysia were impacted during this cyber battle.
The conflict started after around 300 supporters of Filipino Sultan Jamalul Kiram III occupied the village of Tanduao in the Malaysian state of Sabah.