Hackers Attack Lenovo’s Website

Chinese computer giant Lenovo has been the victim of a cyber-attack this week, after the U.S. government recently issued a warning about a software called Superfish. The software in question is an adware program which offers shopping tips to online users. The software somehow made its way to some of Lenovo’s notebooks.

A hacking group that goes by the name of Lizard Squad has claimed responsibility for the cyber-attack through its twitter account. Due to the attack, traffic on the official website of the company was redirected. Work is being done to make the website fully functional again.

The company has stated that following the cyber-attack, the network security is being reviewed and steps would be taken to ensure that user information is protected at any cost.

Last week, after customer complaints, Lenovo offered a tool to remove Superfish. Later the firm announced that the questionable software has been disabled and its customers are no longer facing a security risk.

Superfish, the software in question was designed to help online shoppers and enhance their shopping experience. The software was programmed to conduct a visual analysis of online images in order to highlight the cheapest one.

The hackers were able to take control of the Domain Name Servers (DNS), according to security experts. The DNS are responsible for converting the web addresses typed by online users into internet IP addresses.

Hijacking the DNS is not easy and security experts claim that the hackers were able to do it after they got access to the computer maker’s domain name registrar called Webnic. Then the hackers were able to divert the traffic on Lenovo’s website to other places.

The Lizard Squad claimed on twitter that they had hacked emails which belonged to Lenovo’s employees and some of them were released online. The hackers have also taken credit for launching a similar attack on the Vietnamese domain of Google. This domain was also registered with Webnic.