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Syrian Electronic Army hacks Twitter, New York Times

Lewis Leong

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The Syrian Electronic Army has claimed its latest victims: Twitter and the New York Times. We previously reported that the SEA hacked Viber because it believed the service to be a massive spying program. Recently, the SEA’s attacks have become more and more aggressive, taking down the sites of major media outlets like CBS, NPR, The Washington Post, Huffington Post, and Associated Press.

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Syrian Electronic Army hacks Twitter, New York Times

The attack on the New York Times site briefly displayed a message from the SEA before it was quickly taken down. Twitter is suffering from a major outage but is still loading. Images on Twitter, however, are not loading and many third-party apps like Hootsuite are suffering from the effects of the attack. The attacks focus on exploiting Melbourne IT, the domain registrar of both Twitter and the New York Times, allowing the SEA to reroute traffic from its intended destination, meaning links on Twitter may take users to a completely different page.

At the time of this writing, the official Syrian Electronic Army site has also been taken down.

Source: Mashable | New York Times (Facebook)

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