Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2021-02-07 00:00:00
Affected organization: Nicol (administrator of Sri Lanka national LK top-level)
Affected country: Sri Lanka
Industry: Information
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Protest
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: A mysterious group of hacktivists poisons the DNS records of several Sri Lankans (.klm) websites, redirecting users to a web page detailing various social issues impacting the local population. Two high-profile domains for Google.lk and Oracle.lk, are also impacted