If you’ve been having trouble trying to access your www.google.com.my today, or any sites that end with a “com.my”, it’s most likely due to the fact these DNS servers may have been hacked.
According to Lowyat.Net, the DNS servers involving Malaysian domain names have been poisoned.
“We did some random lookups and have discovered that MSN (.com.my), Bing (.com.my) and Dell (.com.my) records have been poisoned across other DNS servers as well (Level3 and OpenDNS). We believe now that the MYNiC registry itself has been compromised, and as such, all the domain on the .MY suffix are now at risk of malicious attacks.”
So, instead of leading you to the page you were looking for, you may end up on a temporary site with a deface page.
Lowyat.Net also mentioned that no online banking sites were affected, but there’s a high chance that it might. If you’re planning to conduct any online transactions today, please refrain from doing so.
For a quick fix, you can change your DNS serves or switch to OpenDNS. For more detailed instructions, click here.
