Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-02-24 00:00:00
Affected organization: Google Vietnam
Affected country: Viet Nam
Industry: Information
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Message Manipulation,External Denial of Service
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Lizard Squad
Actor type: Undetermined
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The domain name for Google's search engine in Vietnam, google.com.vn, is briefly hacked and hijacked by the hacker collective Lizard Squad and redirected users to a website selling cyberattack tools.