Hackers have dozens of government websites attacked in Malaysia, days after a hacking group criticized the country's censorship.
Malaysian officials said that attempts were made to 51 sites to hack, and at least 41 had been disrupted.
The "Anonymous" hacker group had threatened to attack Malaysia this week, accuses the government of blocking certain websites.
No group has yet said they carried out the attack.
But Anonymous said in an earlier post that web of Malaysia censor films and television programs and block the file-sharing websites was a denial of human rights.
The exact nature of the attacks was not immediately clear, and it may be that they were denial of service overload, instead of hacking intrusions into the computer servers.
The main portal Malaysian government was one of the sites was addressed, and it was not yet available on Thursday.
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission said the attacks on the websites. Gov.my domain began late on Wednesday.
"We do not have the overall recovery to these websites too long, since most websites have already recovered from the attack to expect," the commission said in a statement.
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