Important events of the Syrian electronic army

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20 13 On August 2nd, The New York Times claimed that its website was once paralyzed by "malicious external attacks". The New York Times news director Frans said that the attack was carried out by a hacker group supporting Bashar al-Assad, which called itself the "Syrian Electronic Army" or "others who tried to appear in this capacity".

Employees in The New York Times also received a guidance document asking them to be cautious when sending sensitive emails until the matter is resolved.

The "Syrian Electronic Army" later claimed responsibility for the hacking of The New York Times, and claimed to control several international domain on Twitter. The New York Times and Twitter later confirmed that the failure caused by hacking has been basically solved.

It is reported that the "Syrian Electronic Army" attacked The New York Times and Twitter by attacking domain name registrars. Australian domain name registrar Melbourne is a registrar of well-known websites such as Google, Yahoo, The New York Times and Twitter. On August 27th, 20 13, hackers invaded Melbourne's agent through similar phishing attacks, obtained login credentials with server access rights, and modified domain name servers in The New York Times and Twitter.

In 20 13, the "Syrian Electronic Army" successively attacked the websites of many western media, such as Washington Post, CNN, Time magazine, AFP, CBS, BBC and so on, alleging that these media sympathized with the Syrian opposition.

The attack on the Twitter account of the Associated Press "Syrian Electronic Army" led to a short-term stock market crash in April 2065438+2003. The organization also published false news about the attack on the White House through Twitter. Screenshot of tweets posted by "Syrian Electronic Army" using BBC weather forecast account. Tweets posted by "Syrian Electronic Army" using BBC weather forecast account.

20 13 March, after the BBC account was attacked by the Syrian electronic army, many false news and information related to the Syrian conflict were released. After being "occupied", the first false news said, "The Syrian electronic army is coming." The subsequent message read, "Long live Assad's Syrian electronic army." In addition, hackers also issued several provocative false weather forecasts, such as "Tel Aviv will face dense fog in the north and high pressure of 5000 Kelvin in the east on Saturday" and "Haifa issued a tsunami warning and advised residents to return to Poland." Subsequently, Hamilton, editor-in-chief of BBC social media, confirmed the hacking incident through Twitter. It was not until three hours after the last official news was released that the BBC regained control of the account.

20 13 On April 23rd, the Syrian electronic army tweeted that the White House was attacked by two explosions and President Obama was injured. False Twitter news once caused the US stock market to dive rapidly in intraday trading. The Dow Jones index fell more than 65,438+040 points in two minutes, and then quickly recovered its lost ground. The Associated Press subsequently denied the news, saying that its Twitter account was stolen. The "Syrian Electronic Army" also invaded the Weibo account of Joseph Blatter, president of the International Football Federation, and published false news about Blatter's resignation due to corruption charges.