More Charges Against ‘Syrian Electronic Army’ Hackers
The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday announced more charges against two Syrian nationals believed to be members of the “Syrian Electronic Army” hacker group. read more more…‘Syrian Electronic Army’ goon extradited from Germany now coughs to hacking, extortion – The Shadow remains at large
An associate of the self-styled Syrian Electronic Army has been sentenced to five years in an American prison for his part in running a cyber extortion scheme against businesses around the world. On Wednesday, Syrian-born Peter Romar, 37, pled guilty in a Virginia district court to conspiring to unlawfully access computers and to receive extortion […] more…Syrian Electronic Army Member Pleads Guilty to Hacking, Extortion
A member of the Syrian Electronic Army hacker group arrested earlier this year in Germany has pleaded guilty to hacking and extortion charges before a judge in the Eastern District of Virginia. read more more…Syrian Electronic Army Hacker Extradited to U.S.
Peter “Pierre” Romar, a 36-year-old Syrian national suspected of being a member of the notorious Syrian Electronic Army hacktivist group, has been extradited from Germany to the United States. read more more…FBI adds two Syrian Electronic Army hackers to Cyber Most Wanted list
“The Pro” and “The Shadow” may have been stealthy spearphishers, but they left a clear digital trail on Facebook and Gmail. more…US charges three Syrian Electronic Army suspects
SEA has been linked to a number of cybercriminal campaigns and now three suspects may pay the price. more…The Syrian Electronic Army was careless with Gmail, Facebook
If you’re a hacker, it’s a good idea to stay away from Facebook and Gmail to communicate with your colleagues. Three men, who allegedly were part of a multi-year hacking campaign executed by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), left a long digital trail that didn’t make them hard to identify, according to court documents. The […] more…‘Syrian Electronic Army’ Members Face Hacking Charges
US authorities Tuesday unveiled criminal charges against three members of the so-called “Syrian Electronic Army,” which gained notoriety for hacking into news media outlets and making bogus social media posts. read more more…Syrian Electronic Army hijacks US Army website
“Your commanders admit they are training the people they have sent you to die fighting”, said one of the messages posted on the site. more…Syrian Electronic Army attacks the Washington Post again, hijacks mobile site
Part of the mobile website of the Washington Post was compromised briefly on Thursday by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) hacker group, in an attack that redirected traffic to a site with anti-US and anti-media messages. more…This Is How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked the Washington Post
The Syrian Electronic Army, the notorious hacking group that has hit several high-profile media companies such as the Associated Press, The New York Times, and CNN, hacked the Washington Post mobile site on Thursday afternoon. For a brief period of time, visitors to the Post’s mobile site (m.washingtonpost.com) saw pop-up alerts with messages such as […] more…Syrian Electronic Army hacks Hostgator, FastDomain and more for hosting terrorist sites
It has been a little while since we heard anything from the Syrian Electronic Army, but now the group has made an appearance once again. SEA has hacked five big-name hosting companies — Bluehost, Justhost, Hostgator, Hostmonster and FastDomain — all part of the Endurance International Group. Tags: Security more…Syrian Electronic Army returns with Thanksgiving press hack
Some visitors to sites including CBC, CNBC, Forbes, OK magazine, The Chicago Tribune, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent and The New York Times were met with a message saying “You’ve been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA).” more…Syrian Electronic Army posts hacking message on several news sites
A hacker group called the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) scared visitors to several news websites on Thursday by posting rogue pop-up messages saying they’d been hacked. According to reports from users on Twitter the affected sites included those of CNBC, Forbes, the Chicago Tribune, OK magazine, the Evening Standard, PCWorld, The Daily Telegraph and The […] more…Syrian Electronic Army uses Taboola ad to hack Reuters (again)
Code dynamically inserted into Reuters web pages by content serving company, Taboola, appears to have been poisoned by the Syrian Electronic Army in order to redirect visitors to another page under the hackers’ control. It highlights the need for websites to consider security in a broad context and to not rely solely on traditional server-based […] more…Syrian Electronic Army Hijacks WSJ Twitter Accounts
The Syrian Electronic Army has hijacked a total of four Twitter accounts of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and has posted a message claiming that Ira Winker is a cockroach. The Syrian hacktivists hijacked the WSJ Africa (@wsjafrica), the WSJ Europe (@wsjeurope), the WSJ Vintage (@vsjvintage), and the WSJ.D (@wsjd) Twitter accounts, Poynter reported. They […] more…More information
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