A screengrab of the hacked police Facebook page.
PETALING JAYA: The official Facebook page and Twitter account of the Malaysian police were hacked Monday afternoon.
The profile picture and cover photo of the Royal Malaysian Police Facebook page was changed to that of the Islamic State.
The cover photo had a picture of a gunman waving the Islamic State flag with the words “Khilafah has returned.”
The profile picture of the police emblem was replaced with an image of an eye with words in Arabic including “Allah” and “Muhammad.”
The hackers had also posted a picture of militants armed with weapons and its caption read VIVA ISLAMIC STATE!
One of its updates was “We are : Mauritania Attacker - AnonxoxTn - StingerByte - Mr.Domoz - Th3Falcon - HusseiN98D - Dr'SaMiM-008 - n0name-haxor - hAxOr tr0jAn - BillGate - Mr.Ajword - Extazy007 - Psyco_Hacker - Black Cracker - Virusa Worm - Donnazmi - X-Wanted - De_Reb0rNz - Tunisian Cracker - L'APoca-Dz - Psyf3r – Vortex.”
It also posted an update saying “#AnonGhost was here.”
Previous media reports have stated that AnonGHost is a group of pro-Palestinian hackers who have, among other things, defaced a United Nations (UN) website.
They also said that they did not have any relationship with the famous hacker group Anonymous.
“AnonGhost is different from Anonymous, we don’t have the same goal and don’t have the same level in hacking.
“We are the sound of the forgotten people, the freedom fighter in the cyberworld and our main target is Sionisme and israhell, if you are asking why your website got hacked by us, its basically because we want to share our message and show the world who we are, we are not looking for fame but we have a goal to achieve we supporte all hackers teams and we supporte all the freedom mouvement in the world. \!/,” they said.
The Twitter page of the police also seemed to be hacked with tweets linking to their Facebook post.
One tweet posted read: “Najib Razak...we are coming to you ....”
That tweet was followed by “Kami nak beri amaran pada menteri amaran....jgn nak bekap2 kazen ko tu...hidup ATM ! hidup Dr.M !” (“We want to give a warning to the minister…don’t backup your cousin…long live ATM ! long live Dr. M!"
KUALA LUMPUR: Police intelligence data is intact and its system uncompromised despite an attack by hackers against its social media accounts.
Confirming the incident, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said the matter was being rectified.
“At 2.20pm (yesterday), our Facebook and Twitter accounts were hacked.
“Experts are looking into it now,” he told reporters at Low Yat Plaza here.
“For now, police intelligence data is intact and the system has not been compromised. There is no need to suspend the accounts. For now, we are not opening a new one,’’ he said.
The police’s official Facebook page and Twitter accounts came under heavy attack from hackers, who left messages, among others, supporting the Islamic State (IS).
On Facebook, the cover photo was changed to a picture of a gunman waving the IS flag with the words “Khilafah has returned” while its profile picture was replaced with an image of an eye with Arabic words.
The hackers posted a picture of militants armed with weapons under the caption “VIVA ISLAMIC STATE!”
At one point, they even updated the status on the police’s Facebook page with a list of their “cyber aliases”.
It also posted an update saying “#AnonGhost was here”.
Previous media reports have stated that AnonGhost is a group of pro-Palestinian hackers who have, among others, defaced a United Nations website.
The hackers also clarified that they did not have any relationship with the famous hacker group Anonymous, which had declared “war” against IS Twitter users.
Police had recently carried out operations against IS sympathisers in Malaysia.
