The Daily Telegraph , UK based international news portal, is the latest victim to the social media hacks of Syrian Hacker group. Earlier today, the Syrian Electronic Army has hijacked 8 Twitter accounts Telegraph news and facebook account.
As usual hackers started to tweet from the hacked account. "#FSA terrorits executed innocent citizens: on.ft.com/10VkxZk #SEA Syria" one of the tweets posted by the group reads.
The list of hacked accounts:
In addition to the twitter account hack, they also hijacked the official Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/TELEGRAPH.CO.UK
As usual hackers started to tweet from the hacked account. "#FSA terrorits executed innocent citizens: on.ft.com/10VkxZk #SEA Syria" one of the tweets posted by the group reads.
The list of hacked accounts:
- https://twitter.com/TelegraphNews
- https://twitter.com/TeleTheatre
- https://twitter.com/TelegraphOpera
- https://twitter.com/TelegraphArt
- https://twitter.com/TelegraphFilm
- https://twitter.com/Tele_Comedy
- https://twitter.com/TelegraphSport
- https://twitter.com/TelegraphBooks
In addition to the twitter account hack, they also hijacked the official Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/TELEGRAPH.CO.UK
"We are aware that some of our accounts have been compromised and are working to resolve the issue. Many thanks for your patience." The telegraph responded to the hack.
Earlier Today, the Syrian Electronic Army, the group known for hijacking twitter accounts of top news organization, has tweeted they have compromised the Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Defence Mail system.
"The #SEA is prepared to release secret documents that belong to the Saudi Arabian defense ministry after compromising their email system" One of the tweets reads.
The group said "The leaks include correspondence and secret arms deals from the Saudi Ministry of Defense... These were forwarded to the Syrian government."
The hacker also provided a screenshot that proves the syrian electronic army has managed to gain access to the Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Defence Mail system.
The group recently hijacked the Social media accounts of Financial Times, The Onion, E! News, the Guardian and more. You can find here the list hacks done by the SEA : Syrian Electronic Army
"The #SEA is prepared to release secret documents that belong to the Saudi Arabian defense ministry after compromising their email system" One of the tweets reads.
The group said "The leaks include correspondence and secret arms deals from the Saudi Ministry of Defense... These were forwarded to the Syrian government."
The hacker also provided a screenshot that proves the syrian electronic army has managed to gain access to the Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Defence Mail system.
The group recently hijacked the Social media accounts of Financial Times, The Onion, E! News, the Guardian and more. You can find here the list hacks done by the SEA : Syrian Electronic Army
The Financial Times is the latest news organization to fall victim to the Syrian Electronic Army - The Social engineering masterminds. The group hijacked more than 15 twitter accounts belong to the FT.
"Syrian Electronic Army Was Here via @Official_SEA12 #SEA | http://on.ft.com/10VeNhY " few minutes ago, the SEA tweeted from the hacked ft accounts.
The hacker also made two posts on the technology blog with the title "Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army". The posts have been removed at the time of writing.
The list of hacked twitter accounts:
1.@FTLiveTweets
2.@FTTradingRoom
3.@ftphotodiary
4.@ftdavos
5.@FTMarkets
6.@FTAerospace
7.@Ftindianews
8.@ftbrussels
9.@ftenergy
10. @ftwestminister
11. @ftuselections
12.@ ftvideo
13.@ ftuseconomy
14. @fttheworld
15. @thelexcolumn
16.chief correspondent (@meganmurp)
*Update: 8.50PM(GMT+5.30) : It appears the hijacked account has been recovered by the FT Team.
"Today various FT Twitter accounts and one FT blog (not more as previously stated) were compromised by hackers. We have now secured those accounts are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible."One of the tweet from @FTPressOffice reads.
"Syrian Electronic Army Was Here via @Official_SEA12 #SEA | http://on.ft.com/10VeNhY " few minutes ago, the SEA tweeted from the hacked ft accounts.
The hacker also made two posts on the technology blog with the title "Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army". The posts have been removed at the time of writing.
The list of hacked twitter accounts:
1.@FTLiveTweets
2.@FTTradingRoom
3.@ftphotodiary
4.@ftdavos
5.@FTMarkets
6.@FTAerospace
7.@Ftindianews
8.@ftbrussels
9.@ftenergy
10. @ftwestminister
11. @ftuselections
12.@ ftvideo
13.@ ftuseconomy
14. @fttheworld
15. @thelexcolumn
16.chief correspondent (@meganmurp)
*Update: 8.50PM(GMT+5.30) : It appears the hijacked account has been recovered by the FT Team.
"Today various FT Twitter accounts and one FT blog (not more as previously stated) were compromised by hackers. We have now secured those accounts are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible."One of the tweet from @FTPressOffice reads.
The same group recently the hijacked the twitter accounts of Guardian, E! News, BBC, The Onion and Associated Press.
It seems like the Onion news organization will be the next victim of the Syrian Electronic Army's cyber attack on News organization.
Few minutes ago, the Syrian Electronic Army(SEA) has provided a screenshot that shows they have gained accessed to the official twitter account.
Based on the screenshot provided by the hacker group, they have compromised the four onion's twitter accounts including@ theonion,@OnionSports, @onionpolitics, @onionstroe and @TheAVClub .
It seems like they have hacked the official facebook pages including The Onion and Online sports.
If i am not wrong, the SEA still have access to those twitter accounts because the tweets in the screenshot has been posted before 1 hour.
The screenshot tweeted by the hacker:
Few minutes ago, the Syrian Electronic Army(SEA) has provided a screenshot that shows they have gained accessed to the official twitter account.
Based on the screenshot provided by the hacker group, they have compromised the four onion's twitter accounts including
It seems like they have hacked the official facebook pages including The Onion and Online sports.
If i am not wrong, the SEA still have access to those twitter accounts because the tweets in the screenshot has been posted before 1 hour.
The screenshot tweeted by the hacker:
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The Syrian Electronic army once again strikes another news organization. The Twitter account(Eonline) belong to the Entertainment news organization E! Online which had more than 5.2M followers was hacked by the SEA.
The hackers tweeted fake messages after hijacking the account. "Exclusive: Justin Bieber to E!online: I'm a gay," reads the first fake tweets posted by SEA.
"E! News Breaking: Justin Bieber arrested in Dubai due to false tweets with him coming out situation developing" another tweet reads.
"This account @eonline was compromised and some incorrect information was sent out. " E! online confirmed the security breach. "We're working with Twitter now to fix this."
The hacker also managed to compromise the SMS service of E! Online and sent the above message as well as the following message "E! News Breaking: Fuck Barack Obama via Syrian Electronic Army"
"This message will reach 33,684 subscribers... From E!News SMS Service Control Panel" Hacker posted in their official twitter account.
The Syrian Electronic Army(SEA) reportedly hijacked 11 Twitter accounts belong to the Guardian newspaper. Hackers claimed the attack came after the Guardian preying lies and slander about Syria.
The hacker group also stated that cyber war against Twitter security team for suspending its account.
List of hijacked accounts includes @GuardianBooks, @GuardianTravel, @guardianfilm, @guardianphotos, @guardianstage and few other accounts.
While few twitter accounts have been recovered, most of the twitter accounts still redirect to the suspended page.
"We will keep hacking #Twitter accounts and cause for you problems if you keep suspending our accounts #SEA" one of the tweets reads.
The twitter account of Associated Press (@AP) was hacked today by Syrian Electronic Army which was used to spread a bogus message that there had been two explosions at the White House and that Barack Obama was injured .
This made major stocks drop , but they recovered quickly after people realized that the tweet was fake
White House spokesperson Jay Carney confirmed that Barack Obama was fine. Syrian Electronic Army has taken responsibility for the attack, they had also attacked other media sites and accounts in the past.\
Mike Baker a Journalist who works for Associated Press tweeted "The @AP hack came less than an hour after some of us received an impressively disguised phishing email"
For now the Twitter account of Associated Press has been suspended until it is made sure that the accounts are secure again.
Note : Will update when I get more details
Syrian Hacktivists known as "Syrian Electronic Army" has taken control of the three official Twitter accounts belong to BBC.
The hackers hijacked the BBC Arabic Online(@BBCArabicOnline), BBC Weather account(@BBCWeather) and BBC Radio Ulster account (@bbcradioulster).
After hijacking the BBCArabicOnline , the hacktivists tweeted "Syrian Electronic Army was here via @Official_SEA #SEA".
"And that came in response to what BBC practiced of lies and fabrication of news and in addition to the bias to the bloody opposition" Hackers stated the reason for this cyber attack.
Speaking to EHN, the hacker provided the email id, password of email id and passwords of Twitter accounts. At the time of writing, the BBC recovered their accounts back.
Syrian Electronic Army has claimed to have hacked into the official websites of De Montfort Hall(demontforthall.co.uk) and Ministério Agnus Dei(amad.com.br).
In a dump (pastebin.com/G9c0seAu), the SEA mentioned they exploited the Blind Sql Injection vulnerability in the De Montfort Hall's website and compromised the database.
The dump contains the usernames, hashed passwords, name, email addresses and phone numbers.
In another dump(pastebin.com/Qa6By3nL), the hackers leaked the database of amad.com.br . It contains the login IDs, encrypted passwords, email addreses, IP addresses, phone numbers.
Today, E Hacking News interviewed the famous Syrian hacktivists "Syrian Electronic Army". The Syrian Electronic Army recently hacked Twitter accounts of Fracne24, Qatar Foundation and AFP.
*. Please introduce yourself to EHN readers
i'm a Syrian hacker called "The Pro", The leader of special operations department in the Syrian Electronic Army
Tell me something about your Team
The Syrian Electronic Army is a group of Syrian youth who are trying to defend their country against the media campaign against Syria
our mission is spread the truth about what is really happening in Syria
*. What are SEA's objectives?
we attack the media channels who are involved in what is happening in Syria
we spread the truth and publish our message to the world
the enemies of Syria are using the media as a tool to destroy Syria
*. Why did you choose to become a hacktivist? What are your thoughts on hacktivism?
you know that more than 200 channels are covering the Syria crisis
the Syrian media are doing great but
the "bloody" media more stronger than it
so we choose the hacking way
to use their accounts,websites,emails
as a weapon in our hand
every channel have its followers
so we try to gave this followers the truth
instead of lying all the time
*. what kind of method you use for attacking websites?
we use many methods to attack the websites
attacking the host server ... and targeting the domain owner for exmaple
and for the social media accounts
we attack the mail server
like Skynews arabia and AFP
*. How many websites you hacked so far?
we hacked too many websites, but there are a very secure and powerful websites and there are normal websites
http://zone-h.org/archive/special=1/notifier=SEA
http://www.zone-h.org/archive/notifier=The%20Pro
*. What is your next target? How do you choose your targets?
all the enemies of Syria are targets for us
governments,media channels, websites ....
*. Are you afraid of getting caught?
we are not doing something bad to get caught
we are defending our country
but we have 2 martyrs until now
killed by the "Free" army that pretends to represent to the world they are "peaceful" opposition
*. Is there anything else you would like to add?
no thanks
Following the Qatar Foundation and AFP Twitter accounts hack, the Syrian Electronic Army has hijacked two twitter accounts belong to France24- one of the Top French News website.
The hacktivists hijacked @FRANCE24_AR and @observateurs accounts for about three hours and posted four tweets.
Earlier today the hackers announced the attack in their official twitter account "@France24_ar Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army, another lier media fall down #SEA #Syria pic.twitter.com/LcIJyLDCA4"
According to France24 report, the hacker spread false reports about the death of Syrian opposition figures Riad al-Asaad and Manaf Tlass.
The hackers also attempted to hijack the French and English language twitter accounts of France24 by sending fake requests to reset the account passwords.
The hacker group Syrian Electronic Army hacked into mail system of Israel News Paper Haaretz.
The hackers claimed that they gained access to more than 80 email accounts and passwords of Haaretz employees and leaked the data in their official website.(syrian-es.org/leaks/Haaretz/Haaretz-EmailsAndPasswords)
According to Haaretz report, the hackers sent a spoofed emails to Haaretz employees and asked them to click a link that leads to an article on website of The Guardian, about talks between the United States and the Syrian opposition.
Once the employee click the link, it redirect the victim to a page requesting them to enter their login credentials that allowed hackers to breach their work email accounts.
Haaretz take down the email server after the security breach. The Haaretz Group responded by saying that all employees' email passwords will be changed. Readers' data from Haaretz Group websites are not affected by this breach.
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| Screenshot that lists the Haaretz employees' email accounts |
"It's just the beginning ... Next hacks will include Israeli government targets " Hackers said in their post.
Earlier Today, we reported that the Syrian Electronic Army has hacked Saudi Arabian Ministry of Defense and other Government websites. Now , we have come to know that the MasterCard blog got hacked by the same hacker group.
The hack was initially identified by Eduard Kovacs from Softpedia. The hackers appear to have breached the Payments Perspective Blog from MasterCard’s Insights site(insights.mastercard.com).
They have added a post with title “Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army.” The post has been removed ,at the time of writing. But you can see the post made by the hackers in Google cache: "http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://insights.mastercard.com/2013/01/05/hacked-by-syrian-electronic-army-3/"
The google Evidence shows that the cache recorded on Jan 6 and post has been added on 5th Jan.
It appears that the Site uses the outdated Worpress version. If you check the source code of the blog, you can identify the blog uses the old version 3.3.2 of Wordpress.
The hack was initially identified by Eduard Kovacs from Softpedia. The hackers appear to have breached the Payments Perspective Blog from MasterCard’s Insights site(insights.mastercard.com).
They have added a post with title “Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army.” The post has been removed ,at the time of writing. But you can see the post made by the hackers in Google cache: "http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://insights.mastercard.com/2013/01/05/hacked-by-syrian-electronic-army-3/"
The google Evidence shows that the cache recorded on Jan 6 and post has been added on 5th Jan.
It appears that the Site uses the outdated Worpress version. If you check the source code of the blog, you can identify the blog uses the old version 3.3.2 of Wordpress.
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| Hacker break into Administration Panel of Ministry of Defense Saudi Arabia |
The hacker collective Syrian Electronic Army is back with another huge Cyber attack. They have breached all the websites that belong to Ministry of Defense of Saudi Arabian and other government websites.
According to the hacker official page, they have hacked The Saudi Ministry of Defense(moda.gov.sa), Saudi Arabia Defense Industries (mic.gov.sa), Admission gate of the Armed Forces (afca.gov.sa).
Other hacked sites includes a Saudi government site(csc.edu.sa), General Directorate of Military Works(gdmw.gov.sa), General Directorate of Military Survey (gdms.gov.sa).
Few more hacked sites : a Saudi government site(psmpq.org.sa), safous.gov.sa, Royal Saudi Land Forces(rslf.gov.sa) ,Royal Saudi Navy Foces(rsnf.gov.sa) , General Organization for Military Industries(mic.org.sa).
At the time of writing , most of the affected websites appeared to have been taken offline. You can check the mirror of defacement here:
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/18910865
