The Syrian Electronic Army wins again as 1 million Forbes accounts breached
The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has struck again, defacing the Forbes news website and publishing the names, email addresses and encrypted passwords of over a million of its users. The group claimed responsibility for the attack on Friday, showing off screenshots taken from the site’s WordPress publishing system and suggesting that the stolen user credentials […] more…Syrian Electronic Army hacks Forbes, spills 1M user records – here’s what you need to know
The SEA made off with more than a million records from the Forbes user database – perhaps including yours! – and published them online. We already “cracked” a quarter of the Forbes staffer’s accounts…Paul Ducklin looks at how well everyone else’s password might hold up. more…Syrian Electronic Army hacks Forbes, spills 1M user records – here’s what you need to know
The SEA made off with more than a million records from the Forbes user database – perhaps including yours! – and published them online. We already “cracked” a quarter of the Forbes staffer’s accounts…Paul Ducklin looks at how well everyone else’s password might hold up. more…Syrian Electronic Army hackers claim to capture Facebook.com
If you find a good tactic and it works you stick with it, right? That certainly seems to be the case for the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). Early in 2013 we watched them phish major media organizations in succession. More recently they have moved on to more sophisticated techniques, mixing together social engineering, phishing, email […] more…How to use Syrian Electronic Army attacks to improve security awareness
Recently, we have been called in to help companies handle attacks from the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). Our first priority is to help contain the damage, figure out which accounts have been compromised that have not been used yet to cause damage, and clean things up. Tags: SEA Security more…Syrian Electronic Army hacks Microsoft’s Office Blogs site
After hijacking several of Microsoft's Twitter accounts and compromising its official blog over the past two weeks, the Syrian Electronic Army hacked into the Microsoft Office Blogs site Monday. read more more…Microsoft employee e-mail also hit by Syrian Electronic Army
In addition to compromising some of Microsoft’s social-networking accounts, the Syrian Electronic Army also accessed a “small number” of employee e-mail accounts, the company confirmed Wednesday. The hacking group, which has taken responsibility for an array of breaches in the past couple of years, tweeted three e-mails over the weekend that appeared to originate from […] more…Skype’s Twitter account compromised by Syrian Electronic Army
Microsoft’s Skype brand had their Twitter, Facebook and WordPress accounts hacked by a someone claiming to be the Syrian Electronic Army. The real question is, where was the two-factor? more…Th3Pr0, Alleged Syrian Electronic Army Member, Answers Questions About Hacker Collective
Matthew Keys, the former social media editor for Reuters, who was accused in March for helping Anonymous hack the Los Angeles Times, hosted a live conversation with someone who claimed to be a leader of the Syrian Electronic Army, the mysterious pro-Assad hacker collective known for high-profile attacks on Twitter, The Guardian and New York […] more…Vice.com hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
Visitors to the news portion of Vice.com – part of an international media brand that concentrates on arts, culture and other news – on Friday evening may have been surprised by a headline that read, “Syrian Electronic Army Was Here.” The post – which had ‘SEA’ on the byline – was simply a brief (below). […] more…Barack Obama’s Twitter account taken over by Syrian Electronic Army
A pair of tweets sent by President Barack Obama’s Twitter account re-directed users to to pro-Bashar al-Assad YouTube videos Monday afternoon. One tweet about immigration reform was supposed to send followers to an article from The Washington Post. Instead, it linked to a video montage of terror attacks, starting with the attacks on 9/11. In […] more…How the Syrian Electronic Army took out the New York Times and Twitter sites
Once more, the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), a pro-Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad organization, has struck on the internet. This time, SEA hit The New York Times (NYT), Twitter, and other popular sites. Unlike previous attacks that relied on phishing attacks to gain password information from the target site’s authorized users, SEA is using the weak […] more…Syrian Electronic Army brings down Twitter and The New York Times through domain name provider hack
The Syrian Electronic Army attacked an internet domain name provider today taking down for a short time the websites of The New York Times and Twitter for some users, more…CNN, Time and Washington Post redirect users to Syrian Electronic Army site
The Syrian Electronic Army appears to have compromised content recommendation engine Outbrain resulting in visitors to CNN, Time and The Washington Post being redirected to the hacking groups website. BREAKING: SEA claims was hacking the New York Times as Outbrain shutdown. more…Syrian Electronic Army Hacks White House Media Team
Three White House social media staffers had their personal Gmail accounts compromised by members of the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). The accounts were compromised via a phishing attack that used emails disguised as legitimate communications from the BBC and CNN, reported Nextgov. Instead, the emails included links to fake — but real-looking — Google and […] more…Viber admits to swallowing ‘Syrian Electronic Army’ phishing bait
The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) claimed on Tuesday that it had taken over the support page for instant messaging/VoIP service Viber. Viber itself announced that the claims are overblown and that only two minor systems were breached – a customer support panel and a support administration system. more…More information
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