The prohacker group, very well known as syrian electronic army sea aligned with president bashar alassad, had recently taken down forbes website, sending a reminder to the international community that cyber warfare is alive and well, and this time the group has targeted u. In a statement to cnnmoney, the hacktivist group known as the syrian electronic army took responsibility for the hack, claiming to have broken into the presidents shortswitch account. The syrian electronic army is rewriting the rules of war. Cyberattacks by the syrian electronic army pro syrian regime hackers spark more questions about the group. I got a pdf file on my email with more than 40,000 names of people.
Syrian hackers target mobile users with covid19 lures. The syrian electronic army sea is a group of computer hackers which first surfaced online in 2011 to support the government of syrian president bashar. A lack of unity has made cooperation and coordination difficult on the battlefield and has limited the effectiveness of rebel operations. Syrian electronic army central intelligence agency. The syrian electronic army was causing carnage half a decade ago.
I got a pdf file on my email with more than 40,000 names of people they. The syrian electronic army however, maintains that it succeeded in infiltrating the network, in response to recent israeli strikes. The syrian electronic army sea, a wellequipped group of progovernment. Times site is disrupted in attack by hackers the new. Twitter, new york times hacked, syrian electronic army. Pdf this paper investigates the online hacking group, the syrian electronic army sea, and examines its goals. According to defectors from inside its ranks, the group moved last year from damascus to. Microsoft hacked by the syrian electronic army for a second time in 2014, msftnews twitter account hijacked, sends out sea messages. Yesterday, a hacker group most likely the syrian electronic army sea managed to redirect the new york times, twitter, and huffington post websites to. The syrian electronic army has ties to the syrian president bashar assad regime, cbs news reported. Peter romar, 36, a syrian national affiliated with the syrian electronic army sea, made his initial appearance this afternoon before u. Since the summer of 2012, rebel commanders on the ground in syria have begun to coordinate tactically in order to plan operations and combine resources. Syrian electronic army launched cyberattack on israeli.
On monday, the hacktivist group syrian electronic army sea briefly took over the twitter account of the satirical news publication the onion, posting a series of antiisraeli joke stories. Syrian hackers claim ap hack that tipped stock market by. Top 7 most notorious hacker groups in the world the dark. In february, the syrian electronic army hacking group breached and defaced websites belonging to paypal uk and ebay. The syrian electronic army did not offer proof of its responsibility, nor did it send any tweets from the ap account championing its cause, possibly because it was shut down so quickly. The syrian electronic army a hacktivist group request pdf. Alien labs 2019 analysis of threat groups molerats and apt. The syrian electronic army sea has compromised early 2014 the skypes twitter account and blog to protest against the. The syrian electronic army hacked into harvard universitys homepage, replacing photos on the website with an image of assad and the words syrian electronic army were here.
From the beginning of the syrian conflict, the syrian electronic army sea led major cyber operations against foreign and opposition targets on behalf of syria s president bashar alassad. It later wrote that it had gained access to the millionuser database, and. The syrian electronic army sea is the first public, virtual army in the arab world to openly launch cyber attacks on its opponents, 31 though the precise nature of its. But the syrian electronic army had more luck with news outlets. There is the electronic army which has been a real army in virtual reality. Ebay asks 145 million users to change passwords after. The servers ip address is linked to the syrian telecommunications establishment ste, which is known for hosting infrastructure for the governmentbacked syrian electronic army sea. This thesis examines the role of nonstate cyber actors in violent conflicts, focusing on the case study of the hacker group syrian electronic army. The cyber dimensions of the syrian civil war applied physics. The syrian electronic army claimed to have compromised 17 of the newspapers twitter accounts as well as its website, and posted what it said was the username and password gar1eth for a. A kind of digital shiver went across the internet on tuesday, after the associated. The syrian electronic army is a hacking group that sympathizes with syria and has shown support for the syrian president bashar alassad. The syrian electronic army hacked recommendation service outbrain, which is used by several prominent websites, including cnn, time and the washington post. In one memorable 20 hack, the syrian electronic army took over the associated presss.
The syrian electronic army has aggressively engaged in a wide range of online activities to punish perceived opponents and to force the online. Nationstate mobile malware targets syrians with covid19. Syrian electronic army member extradited to the united. In the emergence of open and organized progovernment cyber attacks in the middle east. Frons said the attack was carried out by a group known as the syrian electronic army, or someone trying very hard to be them. The case of the syrian electronic army, the information warfare monitors helmi noman started documenting the activities of the syrian electronic army sea, which appears to be a case of an. The syrian electronic army sea sprang up in 2011 at the beginning of the antiassad revolution. Syrian electronic army federal bureau of investigation. Articles close enough the link between the syrian electronic. But the attacker wasnt the syrian electronic army or russian criminal. Proregime cyber operationsthe syrian electronic army. The syrian electronic army has, in recent months, taken credit for web attacks on media targets that it sees as sympathetic to syria s rebels, including prior attacks at the new york times. Chapter v the role and influence of the syrian electronic army. Two from syrian electronic army added to cybers most.
How syrian electronic army pulled off thanksgiving day. Aptc37, also known as patbear or the syrian electronic army sea, was first seen in october 2015 targeting members of a terrorist organization. Two from syrian electronic army added to cybers most wanted amad umar agha, left, and firas dardar were charged in federal court with multiple conspiracies related to computer hacking. Microsoft hacked by syrian electronic army for second time. Previous strings appearing in other malware associated with the syrian electronic army contain this name, such as c. Files, including cables, memos, emails and damage assessments, mentioning the syrian electronic army, group of computer hackers which first surfaced online in 2011 to support the government of syrian president bashar alassad. The syrian electronic army, in a tweet, claimed they gained access to elements of our site by hacking one of our business partners, outbrain. The highprofile web site defacement and hacker group known as the syrian electronic army sea continues to deny that its own web server was. The group targets organizations that have shown opposition to the state of syria. The role played by the syrian electronic army sea challenges our common conception of cybersecurity and cyberwar as the terrain of the most advanced and developed. Doj files charges against 3 syrian electronic army members. Using spamming, website defacement, malware, phishing, and denialofservice attacks, it has targeted terrorist organizations, political opposition groups, western news outlets, human rights groups and websites that are seemingly. The syrian electronic army, also known as the syrian electronic soldiers, is a collection of progovernment computer hackers aligned with syrian president bashar alassad. Syrias digital counterrevolutionaries the atlantic.
The syrian electronic army an introductory reading list. Findings this paper determines that the syrian electronic army is motivated to protect the. The syrian electronic army reemerged thanksgiving day to pull off a minor but annoying hack via a u. This national security perspective contains the best opinion of the authors at time of issue. Anderson of the eastern district of virginia on charges that he conspired to violate u. Al assad regime in syria and the syrian electronic army sea.
The united states has filed criminal complaints against three syrian nationals affiliated with the syrian electronic army, a hacker group accused of cyber attacks against the u. March 20 elizabeth obagy middle east security report. A claimed cyber attack by the syrian electronic army pro syrian regime hackers on the new york times sparks more questions about the group. The syrian electronic army sea is a group of computer hackers which first surfaced online in 2011 to support the government of syrian president bashar alassad. The syrian electronic army an introductory reading list financial. The associated press news agency is the latest western news organisation to fall victim to the syrian electronic army s cyber war, with a false tweet about an explosion at. Request pdf the syrian electronic army a hacktivist group purpose the aim of the paper is to assess the hacktivist group called the syrian electronic. The international news website globalpost is the latest target of the syrian electronic army, the online group that supports syrian president bashar assad, the sites ceo said wednesday. Chapter iv summary of the technical features of syrian electronic army.
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