Lenovo's website has been hacked. Anyone visiting Lenovo.com and expecting to see the computer maker's products will be confused.
Instead of showing products, the page has a slideshow of webcam images set to a pop song. Clicking on the images redirects to the Twitter account @LizardCircle
It appears that Lizard Squad, the same group that took down the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live on Christmas Day are behind the attack.
Lenovo has been in the news for the last week, after reports that it bundled adware with its computers that disabled HTTPS connections.
Lenovo.com is resolving correctly in Google's Chrome browser, but not on Safari or Firefox. We suspect the difference comes down to what DNS options the various browsers are using.
The Lizard Circle Twitter also account posted an image that appears to be a message from PR agency Text100 to various Lenovo executives.
The account seems to be implying that it may have access to some of Lenovo's internal email accounts. If that is the case, this could go beyond a simple website defacement and represent a larger, more broad hack. Of course, a more likely explanation is that this is just a DNS attack and that Lizard Squad has used it as a way to intercept emails sent to the domain name.
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