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Dispute whether hackers now targeting PM’s office

By Shannon Teo

KUALA LUMPUR, June 20 — A clip posted on video-sharing site YouTube has threatened another attack on Malaysian websites, this time on the website of the Prime Minister’s Office but a group of hackers credited for the last attack say they are not responsible this time.

Although the video appears to be produced by the notorious hacker group Anonymous, the group has said that the video is a fake in a Twitter post on the @TheAnonymousAd account mentioned in the initial threat last week.

“No. Someone trying to copy,” it said in a reply when asked on Twitter if the video was by Anonymous.

The video said that the PM’s website would be targeted on July 4 at 8.37pm local time.

The video featured a still image with information of the planned attack and a digitised female voice reading out a monologue that appears to be adapted straight out of the film “V for Vendetta.”

“He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent,” it said, before repeating the message from last week’s attack that Malaysia was one of the worst countries in the world in terms of censorship.

Anonymous had attacked the official website of the Malaysian government in an act of protest against Internet censorship last week.

According to a statement posted on the Pastebin website, the group named the recent move to block file-sharing sites like Pirate Bay and whistleblowers WikiLeaks as “inexcusable” acts of censorship which took away “basic human rights.”

“For rules were meant to be broken. And corruption was meant to be washed away and forgiven. Now we will wash your corruption away so be prepared,” the group said.

Anonymous has taken credit for other high-profile attacks such as a December 2010 response to pressure against WikiLeaks to stop the controversial website from publishing classified United States diplomatic cables.

In retaliation, it brought down MasterCard and Visa’s websites and staged attacks on other online commerce sites perceived to be anti-WikiLeaks such as Amazon and PayPal.

The planned attack came despite last week’s arrest of 32 suspects in Turkey after the group also cited censorship for attacks on government sites there. - The Malaysian Insider