The police’s Facebook page appeared to have been hacked about 40 minutes ago when the cover and profile pictures were changed.
The cover now showed a shadowy man who appeared to be waving an Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (Isis) flag emblazoned with words: “Khilafah has returned”.
The profile picture is the partial face of a person with Arabic words emblazoned on one eye.
A group of masked men holding machine guns with the caption “Viva Islamic State” were also on the Facebook page.
This picture has received 428 “likes” and shared 28 times.
In a posting on its status, it said “#AnonGHost Was Here”.
Subsequently, it posted a lengthy status message clarifying that it is not linked in anyway with Anonymous, the international hacktivist group which had attacked government, religious and corporate websites.
“We don’t have any relationship with Anonymous. AnonGhost is different from Anonymous, we don’t have the same goal and don’t have the same level in hacking.
“We are the sound of the forgotten people, the freedom fighter in the cyberworld and our main target is ‘Sionisme’ (sic) and ‘israhell’ (sic), if you are asking why your website got hacked by us, it’s basically because we want to share our message and show the world who we are, we are not looking for fame but we have a goal to achieve we supporte (sic) all hackers teams and we supporte (sic) all the freedom mouvement (sic) in the world,” it wrote.
In its next status message, the hackers posted that it is coming for Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, which prompted some commentators to ask them to troll and hack Najib’s and Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar’s accounts.
The police have acknowledged the attack.
Khalid said a team of experts have been assigned to deal with the cyber attack.
“The incident occurred at 2.20pm and the team is already working on the issues,” Khalid told reporters when met at the Low Yat Plaza in Kuala Lumpur this afternoon.
“Please be informed that the official PDRM Facebook page has been hacked by irresponsible parties. Any information issued forthwith is false,” the police said on Twitter.
Police have gone on an offensive against those suspected of links with Isis.
To-date, more than 90 people have been detained by Malaysian police for alleged ties with the militant group.
The police have also voiced their worries over the latest trend of Malaysians planning to launch attacks in the country upon getting instructions from Isis senior members in Syria.
Source: www.themalaysianinsider.com
