Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2021-02-07 00:00:00
Affected organization: Google.lk
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Message Manipulation
Motive: Protest
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: A mysterious group of hacktivists has poisoned the DNS records of several Sri Lankans (.lk) websites on Saturday and redirected users to a web page detailing various social issues impacting the local population.