Lenovo.com is now redirecting to a CloudFlare DNS resolution error page.
Lenovo's
website has been hacked. Anyone visiting Lenovo.com and expecting to
see the computer maker's products will be confused.
Instead
of showing products, the page has a slideshow of webcam images set to a
pop song. Clicking on the images redirects to the Twitter account
@LizardCircle
It
appears that Lizard Squad, the same group that took down the
PlayStation Network and Xbox Live on Christmas Day are behind the
attack.
Lenovo
has been in the news for the last week, after reports that it bundled
adware with its computers that disabled HTTPS connections.
Lenovo.com
is resolving correctly in Google's Chrome browser, but not on Safari or
Firefox. We suspect the difference comes down to what DNS options the
various browsers are using.
The
Lizard Circle Twitter also account posted an image that appears to be a
message from PR agency Text100 to various Lenovo executives.
The
account seems to be implying that it may have access to some of
Lenovo's internal email accounts. If that is the case, this could go
beyond a simple website defacement and represent a larger, more broad
hack. Of course, a more likely explanation is that this is just a DNS
attack and that Lizard Squad has used it as a way to intercept emails
sent to the domain name.
Posted by : Gizmeon
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