LulzSec defaces The Sun website with Murdoch's fake death story

Lulz Security or LulzSec, a combination of "lulz," or laughs, and security, shot to prominence recently after taking credit for hacking into high-profile online destinations, ranging from small business sites to the Central Intelligence Agency.

Over the past 6 months, members of this group have targeted many public and private companies including Sony Corp., the U.S. Senate, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), PBS, pornography and gaming sites, the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), and many other organizations, law enforcement agencies, corporations, and governmental bodies.

The return of LulzSec
After sitting idle for a short period of time, looks like, LulzSec is back with a big bang.

On Monday, the notorious internet hacking group, along with the self-proclaimed "hacktivists" Anonymous, broke into the website of Murdoch's best-selling British tabloid The Sun and planted a fake article about the death of the Australian-born billionaire.

According to online media reports, News International websites for the Times was taken down last night by the hackers.

Defaced The Sun's website
The fake Sun web page asserted that the 80-year-old Murdoch had been found dead in his garden after ingesting palladium, a metal that resembles platinum, and readers were redirected to fake web page on the New Times site at new-times.co.uk/sun, and then to LulzSec's Twitter feed.

"We have owned Sun/News of the World," Lulz Security posted on Twitter late on Monday.

"The Sun's homepage now redirects to the Murdoch death story on the recently-owned New Times website. Can you spell success, gentlemen?"

Planted Murdoch’s fake death notice
Tuesday's front page story on The Sun's website read "Media moguls body discovered."

"Officers on the scene report a broken glass, a box of vintage wine, and what seems to be a family album strewn across the floor, containing images from days gone by; some containing handpainted portraits of Murdoch in his early days, donning a top hat and monocle," read the fake news article.

The Sun website then redirected the readers again to the LulzSec Twitter feed.

"TheSun.co.uk now redirects to our twitter feed. Hello, everyone that wanted to visit The Sun! How is your day? Good? Good!," it says. "We have joy, we have fun, we have messed up Murdoch's Sun."

Company's DNS servers also compromised
While the British tabloid The Sun is now back to normal, the main News International website is still down, with LulzSec claiming that it's brought down the company's DNS servers and all 1,024 web addresses.

"Oh, we forgot to mention that we sailed over to News International and wrecked them too. Nearing 300,000 followers... full steam ahead!" the group said.

It added, "Arrest us. We dare you. We are the unstoppable hacking generation and you are a wasted old sack of s---, Murdoch. ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWER!"

News International, the British subsidiary of Murdoch's News Corporation, has come under criticism following revelations that journalists at his newspapers hacked into voice-mail accounts in search of news.