A hacking group calling itself the “Iranian Cyber Army” pulled off a coup for about an hour earlier today, redirecting visitors to the Twitter website to a page containing a green flag and Arabic writing:
Fortunately there is no indication at this point that the page was carrying malicious code, and this attack appears to have had political motivations rather than being designed to steal confidential information from users.
Of course, just because a message saying
This site has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army
has beeen posted on a webpage does not necessarily mean that hackers from Iran are responsible for the defacement.
However, Twitter was widely used earlier this year by those wishing to share information about anti-government protests in the country earlier this year, and…
Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
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