Well, it looks like the shoe is on the other foot for once.
The notorious Syrian Electronic Army, who have hacked the blogs and social media accounts of numerous organisations (most recently Microsoft and Skype), has discovered what it feels like to be a victim – after its own website was hacked by a rival group.
A Turkish hacking collective calling itself TurkGuvenligi appears to have compromised the Syrian Electronic Army’s website, after the pro-Assad group’s web-hosting company was apparently breached.
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“Gel Babana”
You imbecils will attack our country with fake phishing emails and we’ll accept your lies and dont do anything ? That is the end you deserve:
“And never think that Allah is unaware of what the wrongdoers do. He only delays them for a Day when eyes will stare [in horror].” Ibráhím – 42
For only conscientious people ! [LINK]
The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has created a reputation for itself, after successfully tricking employees at companies and media organisations to hand over their passwords through convincing phishing attacks.
Typically, having learnt users’ email passwords, the SEA has been able to access victims’ inboxes and determine the passwords for social media accounts such as Twitter and Facebook.
It’s hardly the most sophisticated method of attack in the world, but there is no denying that it has been effective.
Clearly they haven’t made any friends in the Turkish hacking community, however.
At the time of writing, the SEA’s website is offline, but you can still see some evidence of the defacement via Google search:
At the end of last year, TurkGuvenligi also hacked and defaced the official OpenSSL website, leaving a message which read:
TurkGuvenligiTurkSec Was Here @turkguvenligi + we love openssl _
On that occasion, OpenSSL blamed the defacement on “insecure passwords at the hosting provider”.
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