#OpMalaysia?

At approximately 11.00pm, 16 June 2011, several web servers belong to Government of Malaysia (GOM) experienced massive denial of service (DoS) and believed to be maliciously attacked. It is widely circulated that a virtual community of hacktivist called ‘Anonymous’ is behind this attack based on a poster posted on the Internet calling their community to join a chatroom created in Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and launch attack on GOM’s main website – http://www.malaysia.gov.my/ .

What triggers it?

Government decision to block several websites suspected to be used by Malaysians to share or download pirated and illegal media such as movies, songs, etc. Its escalated even more when Anonymous claimed that GOM also blocked Wikileaks websites, which is completely untrue.

How the incident unfolds?

9 June 2011 – Leaked letter from Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commision (MCMC) demanding that all Internet Service Provider (ISP) block several popular websites such as Megaupload, The Pirate Bay, etc, used to host pirated and illegal media.

Appears on ‘Only In Malaysia’ Facebook page.

More link - http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=1898764&view=findpost&p=42950911

9 June 2011 – Facebook page ‘1M Malaysians Don’t Want SKMM Block File Sharing Websites’ launched and gain many supporters. Appears Malaysian public opposed GOM decision to block those websites.

10 June 2011 – MCMC pressured to explain its action to block those websites

Read here - http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/166500
Read here - http://www.bharian.com.my/bharian/articles/MCMCperjelasisusekatanlamanweb/Article/print_html
Read here - http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v5/bm/newsbusiness.php?id=592917
Read here - http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2011&dt=0610&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Terkini&pg=bt_11.htm

12 June 2011 – Anonymous posted threat to GOM. Published on Pastebin

More link - http://pastebin.com/TLcAgHAe

14 June 2011 - @Anon_Central tweet. First mention of Operation Malaysia. Note that the date and day is wrong.