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Blackshades RAT Takedown Leads to 90 Arrests
More than 90 arrests have been made in connection with development and sales of a remote access Trojan used worldwide to steal data and spy on victims, including Syrian dissidents. The FBI and the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office yesterday announced the takedown of the Blackshades operation...
FBI Arrests 100 Hackers linked to Blackshades Malware
On Friday, we reported about the large-scale operation of International raids launched by the FBI and other law enforcement officials in countries around the world to arrest the targeted customers of a popular Remote Administration Tool RAT called ‘Blackshades,’ which is designed to take over the...
Flash Zero Day Used to Target Victims in Syria
A couple days after Microsoft warned users about a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer that’s being used in targeted attacks, Adobe on Monday said that researchers have discovered a zero day in Flash, as well, which attackers are using to target victims in Syria through a watering hole attack ...
Microsoft charges FBI for your Information; Syrian Electronic Army leaks Invoices
Till now we all were aware about the truth that tech companies gave legal access to user data on the government's request, but we were unaware that well known tech companies also charge the government for providing data. Syrian Electronic Army SEA, the pro-hacker group, who had compromised...
Syrian Electronic Army hacks U.S Central Command & threatens to leak Secret Documents
The Pro-hacker group, very well known as Syrian Electronic Army SEA aligned with president Bashar al-Assad, had recently taken down Forbes Website, sending a reminder to the international community that cyber warfare is alive and well, and this time the group has targeted U.S Central Command...
Forbes Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army; Website and Twitter accounts Compromised
Forbes is the latest victim in a long line of high-profile attacks by the Syrian Electronic Army SEA, sending a reminder to the international community that cyber warfare is alive and well. The pro-Assad group also took responsibility for hacking multiple Forbes websites and hijacked three Twitte...
Facebook domain hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
On the 10th Anniversary of Social networking website Facebook, the hacker group 'Syrian Electronic Army' claimed that they managed to hack into the administrator account of the Facebook's Domain Registrar - MarkMonitor. The hacking group changed the Facebook Domain's contact information to a Syri...
eBay and PayPal UK website hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
A pro-hacker group, aligned with president Bashar al-Assad, very well known as Syrian Electronic Army SEA has again gained the media attention by adding the popular sites, i.e. eBay UK and PayPal UK to its victim list. After targeting websites of various media agencies, government organizations a...
Syrian Electronic Army Hits CNN, Microsoft
Just like it’s done time and time before, the Syrian Electronic Army SEA broke into yet another media outlet late last week, hacking a handful of social media accounts belonging to CNN, including seven Twitter accounts and two Facebook accounts. CNN admitted the accounts were compromised in a pos...
XtremeRAT Malware Used in Targeted Attacks Against Israel
Espionage malware used in attacks against Israel, as well as Syrian activists, in the last 18 months has been linked to a new attack against Israel’s Civil Administration, the country’s governing body in the West Bank. Researchers at Seculert reported today that samples of XtremeRAT, a...
CNN's Twitter, Facebook and website hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
A well-known pro-Syrian hacker group known as Syrian Electronic Army SEA, aligned with President Bashar al-Assad, who successfully attacked The New York Times, Huffington Post, and Twitter, BBC, National Public Radio, Al-Jazeera, Microsoft, Xbox, Skype and responsible for cyber-attacks against...
Syrian Electronic Army kept their promise; Microsoft's Office blog hacked
Yesterday Night Microsoft has faced another targeted attack by the Syrian Electronic Army SEA, a group supposed to be aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The SEA group is popular for its advance phishing attack and using the same technique they also hacked into the Official Twitter...
Syrian Electronic Army's own website got hacked by Turkish hacker
Oops.. Hackers got Hacked! The Syrian Electronic Army, who has hacked hundreds of High Profile targets in 2013-14, today they got hacked by a Turkish hacker. Turkguvenligi, a Turkish hacker told The Hacker News that he hacked and defaced the official website of the hacking group SEA sea.sy and...
Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Microsoft Social Media Accounts
Just a few days after it hacked Microsoft’s Skype blog and Twitter account, the Syrian Electronic Army SEA took to some of the company’s other social media accounts over the weekend, hacking both its @MSFTNews and @XboxSupport Twitter handles along with the company’s official blog. It all started...
Microsoft Official Blog and Twitter account hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
It could be the worst day ever for Microsoft's patch management and Incident response team. A group of pro-Syrian hackers 'Syrian Electronic Army' has successfully compromised the official Twitter account of the Microsoft News @MSFTNews, Xbox Support. They also defaced the Microsoft's TechNet blo...
Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Skype Twitter Account With Anti-Surveillance Message
The Syrian Electronic Army took advantage of the relative calm of New Year’s Day to make a loud statement about the NSA’s surveillance program and Microsoft’s alleged participation in it. The group compromised the Twitter account and blog of Microsoft’s Skype service and posted anti-surveillance...
Skype's Official Twitter, Facebook and Blog Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
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New Attacks Target Syrian Activists
A new set of malware campaigns targeted at Syrian activists, journalists and NGOs has emerged, and security researchers say that the attackers are employing a variety of tactics, including a new OS X Trojan that could be part of a “false flag” operation. The details of the new round of attacks on...
TIME Magazine Twitter account hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
Just now, The hacktivist group Syrian Electronic Army SEA briefly took over the Twitter account of the TIME Magazine. The Hacker group tweeted from the TIME's official account, "Syrian Electronic Army Was Here via @OfficialSEA16..Next time write a better word about the Syrian president SEA" with...