How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked the Onion

A pro-Syrian regime hacker collective known as the Syrian Electronic Army SEA recently compromised the Twitter, Google Apps and other accounts belonging to The Onion, a long-running satirical news publication in the U.S. Like The New York Times before it, The Onion published a fascinating...

Syrian Electronic Army Hijacks The Guardian's Twitter Accounts

The Guardian's Twitter accounts have been taken over by pro-Syrian government hackers 'Syrian Electronic Army' , who previously targeted the Associated Press BBC, al-Jazeera, the Qatari government and National Public Radio in the United States, as well as France 24 TV. "We are aware that a number...

Syrian Electronic Army Hijacks The Guardian's Twitter Accounts

The Guardian's Twitter accounts have been taken over by pro-Syrian government hackers 'Syrian Electronic Army' , who previously targeted the Associated Press BBC, al-Jazeera, the Qatari government and National Public Radio in the United States, as well as France 24 TV. "We are aware that a number...

Syrian Hackers Hijack AP Twitter Tweet Obama Injured by Bomb

Twitter is facing increased pressure to beef up authentication for users after the hijacking of another high-profile account yesterday caused some temporary tremors on the stock market. The social network has reportedly been testing two-factor authentication internally; Twitter lags behind Google...

Hacked Twitter account of The Associated Press posted bogus report of attack at White House

The Associated Press Twitter account has been hacked,and posted a bogus post about explosions at the White House and Barack Obama is injured. Within a few minutes, Twitter suspended the account, and Julie Pace, the chief White House correspondent for The A.P., announced at a White House briefing...

Hacked Twitter account of The Associated Press posted bogus report of attack at White House

The Associated Press Twitter account has been hacked,and posted a bogus post about explosions at the White House and Barack Obama is injured. Within a few minutes, Twitter suspended the account, and Julie Pace, the chief White House correspondent for The A.P., announced at a White House briefing...

Syrian Electronic Army Hijack Sky News's Twitter & Facebook Accounts

Syrian Electronic Army strike again! This time hacking group hijack Twitter accounts and a Facebook page of Sky News Arabia and also hack their Emails. The accounts affected were the channel's main twitter handle @skynewsarabia and the @skynewsarabia account used for cultural and entertainment...

Outdated version of WordPress leads to MasterCard Hack

On tip of a readers, yesterday we came across a new MasterCard hack, performed by Syrian Electronic Army. Hackers was able to breach MasterCard Blog https://insights.mastercard.com and make a new blog post on the website with title "Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army" on January 5, 2013. For now...

Outdated version of WordPress leads to MasterCard Hack

On tip of a readers, yesterday we came across a new MasterCard hack, performed by Syrian Electronic Army. Hackers was able to breach MasterCard Blog https://insights.mastercard.com and make a new blog post on the website with title "Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army" on January 5, 2013. For now...

Hackers and Anti-Government Protests rage across Iraq

Four Iraqi Government websites defaced today by hacker going by name "riSky". Defaced domains include Iraq National Investment Commission website also. Where, Tens of thousands of protesters rallied across Iraq on Friday, charging that Sunni Muslims had been disenfranchised under the Shiite-led...

#OpSyria : Teamr00t Hack Syrian Government Sites

The Syrian government is almost certainly responsible for a blackout Thursday that shut down virtually all Internet service in the country. However, The Syrian government blamed the outage in internet service and mobile coverage in some areas on the armed groups' sabotage acts against cellular...

Anonymous Leak Emails from Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Anonymous Hacker managing Operation Syria OpSyria have released 1 GB of emails dump from Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Files are in files are in Arabic language. Documents includes scanned copies of Syrian ministers passports, details about an arms transport from Ukraine, report which shows...

Al Jazeera SMS service Hacked, Fake messages spread by Hackers

Al-Jazeera says hackers have targeted the Qatar-based TV satellite channel for the second time in a week, sending out false news reports on its mobile sms service. Al Jazeera confirm the hack in a tweet,"We'd like to inform our subscribers that Aljazeera sms sevice is being compromised by pirates...

Al Jazeera News network website hacked by Pro-Assad hackers

The official website of one of the biggest Arabic-language news network "Al Jazeera" got hacked just now by Pro-Assad hackers called "Al-Rashedon". If your miss the deface page, please have a look to mirror of it Here. Deface page designed with Dark color as shown in image and have some message i...

DarkComet RAT Used in New Attack on Syrian Activists

There is a new attack campaign that’s targeting dissidents in Syria by enticing them to install an alleged security tool called AntiHacker, but instead installs the infamous DarkComet remote access tool that has the ability to log keystrokes, capture webcam images and take other surreptitious...

Fake Syria News Posted from Hacked Reuters blog and Twitter account

On Friday, Reuters blog platform was hacked with false posts and on Saturday, the @ReutersTech account on Twitter was taken over and renamed @TechMe. False tweets were sent before it was taken down. The first attack came Friday after Syrian hackers loyal to President Bashar al-Assad allegedly...

Blackshades RAT Pops Up in Attacks on Syrian Activists

They just do not stop having targeted malware attacks in Syria. Just a few days after the author of the Dark Comet RAT announced he was shutting down development and sales of the tool, partly because it was used in attacks by the Syrian government, experts have found that pro-government attackers...

DarkComet RAT Flames Out

The author of DarkComet, one of the more notorious remote administration tools in use today, has said that he is ending development and sales of the tool after finding out that DarkComet was used by the Syrian government in attacks against anti-government activists. DarkComet is one of a handful ...

Wikileaks to Publish Almost 2.5 Million 'Syria Files'

Whistle blower website Wikileaks announced Thursday that it would publish nearly 2.5 million e-mails from 680 agencies in Syria over the next two months. In a press release on the organization’s site, Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange claimed “the material is embarrassing to Syria,” and “Syria’s...

Syrian Dissidents Hit By Another Wave of Targeted Attacks

One of the attackers who has been targeting Syrian anti-government activists with malware and surveillance tools has returned and upped the ante with the use of the BlackShades RAT, a remote-access tool that gives him the ability to spy on victims machines through keylogging and screenshots. The...