14 DAY TRIAL // Malaysian registrar MYNIC has published a statement regarding the recent attack that led to Google Malaysia domains google.com.my and google.my being defaced. Apparently, the Pakistani hacker of Team Madleets redirected the domains to an arbitrary IP address through a reseller’s account.
MYNIC’s investigation has revealed that no other domains have been accessed or changed. The company also says its internal systems have not been compromised.
“Our findings show that the redirection is done through one of MYNIC Reseller’s account. We can assure there is no customer’s content, password information and other personal information affected by the redirect,” noted Hasnul Fadhly Hasan, CEO of MYNIC.
MYNIC, which is the sole administrator of .my domains, says it’s taking measures to prevent further incidents.
“Since the first incident on 1st July 2013, various security measures have taken place on MYNIC’s infrastructure and our records show that unauthorised access to the system no longer occurs,” Hasnul Fadhly Hasan added.
“However, this time around, the group manipulated reseller's account management. MYNIC’s next course of action is to immediately improve resellers’ security on account management.”