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Anonymous Group Targets Hawthorne Police Department For Brutally Shooting Dog

July 6, 2013, 1:15 pm
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hawthorne_dog_zt5_YouTube The online hackavist from Anonymous group has targeted the Hawthorne Police department in response to police shooting a man’s rottweiler dog. As reported by authorities, the Hawthorne Police department has taken this threat very seriously and are on high alert when the video of dog’s shooting  went viral just two days ago with more than 4 million hits on YouTube. In a video released by Anonymous, the Hawthorne Police department was warned and told that it is the group's primary target for shooting a dog. The video message was expressed in following words:

  • Hello fellow citizens of Earth. We are ‘Anonymous.’ Police of Hawthorne, you should know you are our primary target. This matter will not remain unresolved. We are ‘Anonymous.’ We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.

Click here to watch video message released by Anonymous. Hawthorne police department has confirmed that they are facing major public backlash, with angry calls, emails and tweets pouring in, along with some threats. Hence in order to secure their cyber security a specialist has been hired to tackle any kind of cyber attack. The FBI is already monitoring social media to investigate the threat. Hawthorne city official site (www.cityofhawthorne.com)was already hacked five days ago and since then displaying offline message.
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8 ‎Egyptian Ministry Websites Hacked by ‎Anonymous ‎Jordan, asks Anti-Morsi Protesters Few Questions

July 7, 2013, 12:47 pm
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An Anonymous hacker going with the handle of Anonymous Jordan has hacked and defaced eight (8) Egyptian Ministry websites against the taking down of Muslim Brotherhood's government few days ago. The targeted websites belong to different high profile government ministries and departments, such as the website of Ministry of Electricity & Energy (www.nrea.gov.eg) Egyptian Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation (www.mopic.gov.eg), Presidency of the Council of Minister's slums Development Fund (www.isdf.gov.eg), Ministry of Supreme Council of Culture (www.scp.gov.eg), Egyptian Ministry of Culture (www.ecm.gov.eg) & (www.egyptiancultureministry.gov.eg), Ministry of Port and Shipping's Red Sea Ports Authority (www.rspa.gov.eg) and website of National Council for the Welfare of the families of martyrs and invalids Revolution (www.25jan.gov.eg). The sites were hacked on 5th July and left with Anonymous official logo, a deface along and a message in Arabic language asking people of Egypt what they are really up to and what do they want? No Mubarak and now no Murso, so what else? The deface message was expressed in following words:
  • This website was hacked, because we want to pass a message to the Egyptian people" what do u want? u said u didn't want Mubarak so he left. Your country got into a critical situation, u said u wanted a president, and after the elections, You said Mursi is your president, and Mursi did all he could, its enough that he was an Islamic ruler, (changed the filth that was in Egypt, tourists in Sharm al Sheikh and prostitution etc, bottom line is that I hope my message got to those who don't want Mursi, cause you cant find a ruler like him in all Egypt. Important Note: what caught my attention is that Egypt will be divided in three countries, and u'll see everything going to be a game I swear.
Links and mirrors of hacked sites are mentioned below:
  • www.nrea.gov.eg/default.aspx
  • http://zone-h.com/mirror/id/20213623
  • www.25jan.gov.eg/index.html
  • http://zone-h.com/mirror/id/20213634
  • www.rspa.gov.eg/default.aspx
  • http://zone-h.com/mirror/id/20213653
  • www.ecm.gov.eg/index.htm
  • http://zone-h.com/mirror/id/20213660
  • www.scp.gov.eg/index.htm
  • http://zone-h.com/mirror/id/20213707
  • www.egyptiancultureministry.gov.eg
  • http://zone-h.com/mirror/id/20213704
  • www.isdf.gov.eg
  • http://zone-h.com/mirror/id/20212904
  • www.mopic.gov.eg/x.html
  • http://zone-h.com/mirror/id/20212817
At the time of publishing this article, all 8 websites were hacked and displaying deface page left by the hacker.
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6 Pakistani Ministry Websites Hacked by Afghan Cyber Army

July 11, 2013, 2:37 pm
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A group of hackers claiming to have roots in Afghanistan going with the handle of Afghan Cyber Army has hacked and defaced six high profile ministries of government of Pakistan. Hackers left their deface page along with a message against Pakistan against alleged involvement of Pakistani authorities in recent suicide bombings in Kabul, Afghanistan. The message was expressed in following words:

  • Pray for all the innocent victims of Kabul attack this is a small answer From All Afghans Remember We are the new generation of Afghanistan and we are not stupid... We do not fear anyone or anything. We are united Alhamdullilah. We fight together, We stand together, We die together, read the whole deface message here.

After analyzing the hack, I've found out that targeted sites belong to important ministries under the government of Pakistan such as Ministry of Defence of Pakistan (http://mod.gov.pk), Ministry of Interior (http://www.interior.gov.pk), Economic Affairs Division (http://www.ead.gov.pk), Cabinet Division of Pakistan (http://www.cabinet.gov.pk), National Training Bureau (NTB) (http://www.ntb.gov.pk) and Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources of Pakistan (http://www.mpnr.gov.pk/). Links of all targeted sites along with their zone-h mirrors are available here. It seems as if this is a start of another cyber war between the hackers of Afghanistan and Pakistan as both countries were previously under massive cyber attack due to similar reasons. At the time of publishing this article, all websites were still hacked and displaying deface page left by the hackers.
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Official Sony Electronics Italy Website Breached, 40k accounts leaked by Turkish Ajan Hackers

July 12, 2013, 2:19 pm
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sony-italy-hacked-by-turkish-hackers-2 The well known Turkish hackers from Turkish Ajan hacking group have hacked into the official website of Sony Electronics (web.sony.it) designated for Italy, as a result a total 41,458 user account details have been leaked online just a moment ago. The group contacted me on Twitter, claiming to breach the official Sony Electronic site and dumping massive amount of user credentials on an online site.  sony-italy-hacked-by-turkish-hackersAfter analyzing the dumped data, I have found highly personal details of site users such as, names, usernames, complete addresses, Po Box numbers, registration dates, gender details, date of birth, phone numbers, locations such as city names along with province and clear-text passwords of some of the site users. I have found data to be legit and never been leaked in past. You can check the dumped data by visiting SpeedyShare website. Turkish Ajan hackers are the same hackers who had hacked into the official website of US Air Force Culture & Language Center, leaking highly sensitive defence related information online.
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LulzSecPeru defaces, leaks data of Peru’s government portals for using NSA’s backed hosting service

July 14, 2013, 7:54 pm
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LulzSecPeru known as one of the most skilled online hackavists are back, this time by the hackers have hacked and defaced the government of Peru's Citizen Service Portal for using hosting services of Global Crossing's server (now known as Level 3 Communications) that allegedly provides personal information of site's users to American's National Security Agency (NSA). Along with the defacement, LulzSecPeru also managed to dump huge amount of personal data on Pastebin that includes site's database, users and administrator details such as emails, usernames and telephone numbers. While the site was left with a deface page and a message, explaining reason for attacking the site and what they want from the government. The deface message was expressed in following words:
  • Umm OK, let's be honest with you, the websites and e-mails of the state is hosted on the servers of Global Crossing. Global Crossing is the leading vendor of information to the NSA, so all of the state they are giving to the NSA. Tip THIS SUPPLIER beat it. The website of the Presidency of Peru and the mail server are hosted in the country the United States, as may be possible that even this after U.S. intelligence continues to operate in that country. Mr. "Mirko Repetti" GLOBAL CROSSING current PERU manager is a charlatan to tell all your customers that provide security for your data when you do.
Other then the portal, hackers also defaced two more government sites for the very same reason. Leaked data, targeted links and mirrors of hacked sites are given below: 
  • http://www.tramites.gob.pe/
  • www.serviciosalciudadano.gob.pe
  • http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/20272104
  • www.ongei.gob.pe
  • http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/20272104
  • Leaked data: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=kCHUHqP0
Global Crossing Limited was a telecommunications company that provided computer networking services worldwide which was sold to Level 3 Communications in 2011. At the time of publishing this article, all websites were hacked and displaying deface page left by the hackers.
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TrueCaller Phone Directory Hacked, Database with Millions of Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin & Gmail accounts dumped

July 17, 2013, 12:23 pm
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Syrian hackers known for their hardcore support for President Bashar Ul Assad from Syrian Electronic Army are back in news, this time the army has claimed to have breached into the official website of Swedish based TrueCaller (truecaller.com), a global phone directory application for smartphones and feature phones, and accessible via a Web site. The claim was announced by the hackers on their official website, saying that the databases contains hundred of millions of phone numbers and details of who owned these numbers, in addition of millions of Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Gmail accounts. Apart of that, the information has been dumped and sent to Syrian government. The list of the databases that been downloaded is mentioned below:

  • truecaller_ugc: 459GB

  • truecaller : 100GB

  • truecaller_profiles : 4GB

  • truecaller_api : 123KB

  • truecaller_PushMe: 2.2KB

  • tc_admin : 7MB

  • tc_www: 70MB

Syrian Electronic Army has released a screenshot of TrueCaller website's that shows the hackers are logged in to the site's admin panel. However, leaked data has not been leaked online nor made it available for public but according to the claim has been sent to Syrian government. Read all past hacks by Syrian Electronic Army here.
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FEMA hacked: Anonymous hacks US server in defense of Snowden and against threats from agency

July 18, 2013, 3:50 pm
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fema-hacked-anonymous-hacks-us-server-in-defense-of-snowden-and-government-transparencyA group of Anonymous hacker has said to hack into a server used by Federal Emergency Management. According to them, the data secured through this breach is highly prolific and could beat the recent documents leaked by Snowden on PRISM project. In one of the documents published online the group unleashed the type of data they have gotten hold of. Most of it was email address and passwords of users which seem to government employees because most of the email addresses were hosted to .gov or .mil. The Anonymous group also disclosed the reasons behind this hack, according to them, they wanted disclose them as force especially in relation to crackdown attempts made against the hackers these days.Furthermore, they wanted government’s attention in regard to their intervention with the private sector for gathering sensitive information. One of Anonymous group’s member said:
  • Anonymous does not wave the white flag. Not while we are faced with a daily stream of abominable revelations from Edward Snowden and others, not while the battle for the very soul, the very original purpose, of the internet escalates in severity daily,” read a statement by a representative of Anonymous and obtained by GlobalPost.
However, the main reason behind this attack was to warn the government intelligence agencies regarding their act. The Anonymous member also put light to ties between government agencies and cyber crimes investigating firms. One clear example he gave was Obsidian analysis which is contracted by FEMA for investigating prime cyber attacks in the country. Obsidian analysis also created a mock news on Anonymous hacktivists which was broadcasted through CNN and a senior reporter was involved in reading out. The news was related to imaginary hacktivists group Void- the news said the group has laid out an attack which could be really disastrous in terms of both government and private sector. Anonymous group is not really all these acts and is really looking to up their anti against the U.S. government agencies. Given that, we can expect more attacks from Anonymous group in future.
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Anonymous hacks, leaks emails and passwords of US Congress

July 18, 2013, 5:30 pm
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Anonymous-hacks-leaks-emails-passwords-US-Congress Anonymous hackers have claimed to breached the official website of US congress and its mail server (mail.house.gov and senate.gov), as a result around 1800 email addresses along with their passwords have been leaked online. Hackers claim that emails and passwords belong to US Congress and their staff which have been compromised to make it clear on congress that Anonymous hackers have been keeping an eye on them over ongoing issues such as NSA, FISA and PRISM. Anonymous-hacks-leaks-emails-passwords-US-Congress-2 The leaked data which has been dumped online shows email addresses and their clear-text passwords along with a message, which has been expressed in following words:

  • For the purposes of being far too generous with you guys, we have removed some of the passwords and shuffled the order of the remaining ones,” the hackers wrote next to the data. These are all current, valid credentials but they are not in the original pairings. We reserve the right to spontaneously decide this restraint was unjustified.

The leaked data seems legit but unclear if it was acquired from American Senate or from the systems of US House of Representatives. Anonymous hackers have become suddenly very active and critics of ongoing issues as few hours ago the same hackers had hacked FEMA's server in support of NSA's whsitleblower Snowden. At the time of publishing this article, the leaked data was still available on ZeroBin.
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Website of Pakistani Entertainment Channel HUM TV Hacked by MadcodE Haxor

July 19, 2013, 10:49 pm
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A Pakistani hacker going with the handle of MadcodE Haxor has hacked and defaced the official website of Pakistan based famous entertainment TV channel known as HUMTV (www.hum.tv).

The site was hacked few moments ago and left with a deface page along with a message, explaining why the site was hacked. The message shows that site was attack only because a testing reasons. The deface message was expressed in following words.
  • yeah...right!! You have been hacked, madcodE haxor was here! shocked?? HumTv Got hacked ?? ooops Sorry Guys!  But I was just wondering that why all of my friends and family members like humTV shows??  So to Figure it out.. I thought lets check your website and Seriously .. Website check karte karte meri niyat badal gai... haha so nothing personal..It just a security reminder that your website is vulnerable ..SO patch your system buddie.. Msg For WEb Admins--> Expect us..Because Security is just an illusion for us and no firewalls can stop us to make changes in our very own cyber world.
Hacking such a high profile TV channel site shows that Pakistani web admins are not keeping an eye on their site's security as just few days ago, the official website of HBL Bank was also hacked and defaced by a Pakistani based hacking group. At the time of publishing this article, the site was hacked and displaying deface page left by the hacker.
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Website of National Transport Authority UAE hacked & defaced by Saudi hackers

July 19, 2013, 11:42 pm
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Three Saudi hackers going with the handles of SNipEr AL BaHa, CrAzY HaCkEr and SNIPER MAKKA have collectively hacked and defaced the official website of United Arab Emirate's (UAE) National Transport Authority (NTA) (http://www.nta.gov.ae). The site that was hacked today is left with a deface page along with a deface message against the government of UAE and Qatar for allegedly helping Iran and Israel on current affairs. Hackers have also threatened to hack and leaked the data base of UAE's Ministry of Interior website. The deface page is in Arabic language and thanks to an Arabic speaking friend who did this translation for us:
  • UAE + AbuDhabi + Qatar + Dubai
  • Countries that corporate with Iran and America, So you Insult Shaykh Al-Arayfee and thought we won't do anything to you? No my love, The first website we've defaced was the Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs and now we have defaced another government website (National transport authority) what do you think?And there is a ministry of interior.. Would you like us to leak the database with its information and information of the domain? hahaha! This deface is for Shaykh Al-Arayfee
Link of targeted website along with its Zone-h mirror can be found below: http://www.nta.gov.ae http://zone-h.org/mirror/id/20313672 National Transport Authority deals and felicitates transport related issues around the country and headed by Hamdan bin Mubarak al Nahyan who is a member of the Al Nahyan family in the United Arab Emirates.  UAE is under constant cyber attacks from different hackers, just couple of months ago official websites of UAE’s Police HQ, Civil Defense Directorate & Committee for Humanitarian Law and Virgin Radio Dubai were hacked and defaced. At the time of publishing this article, the website was hacked and displaying deface page left by the hackers.
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473 British websites hacked by Pak Cyber Eaglez

July 20, 2013, 3:26 pm
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A well known Pakistani hacker Sizzling Soul from Pak Cyber Eaglez is back in news with his latest attack in which 473 British based websites have been hacked and defaced few hours ago. Sizzling Soul contacted me via email about his latest attack and explained that  sites were defaced against alleged British Police brutality and racism with Asians and Muslims. The group has threaten to attack every British site if police doesn't change its attitude with Muslims. The sites were left with a deface page along with a message which was expressed in following words:
  • {Knifing death of a British soldier.} No Body Knows Who Killed That Soldier. But Why The British People And Police Are Blaming Only Muslims.. You People Are Sick. Hundreds Of Innocent Muslims Are Arrested, Mosques And Islamic Centres Are Burnt Down. This Is Not The Justice. Stop Doing This.. Otherwise Pak Cyber Eaglez has Arrived. We Will Hit Every British Website. We Won't Stop,Until You People Stop.
The list of hacked sites shows that all targeted sites belong to private business such as restaurants, schools, Forex, construction, fashion designing and medical stores.   Links of targeted sites along with their mirrors are available here. At the time of publishing this article all 473 sites were hacked and displaying deface page left by the hacker.
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220 websites hacked and defaced by Turk Hack Team

July 20, 2013, 5:03 pm
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Famous Turkish hackers from Turk Hack Team is back with another hack, this time one of their hacker going with the handle of Black-Spy has hacked and defaced 220 websites today. The hack is random with sites from different countries, left with deface page along with a simple message, yet the reason for attacking these sites was not mentioned anywhere. Deface message was expressed in following words:

Hacked By Black-Spy Do not be afraid of telling the truth. " Contact : black-spy@outlook.com.tr.

Targeted sites belong to different private based business such as women clothing, educational institutions, real estate and several others. Links and mirrors of all hacked sites are available on Pastebin and can be viewed by clicking here. At the time of publishing this article, most sites were taken offline.
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Database of Ubuntu Forum Breached, hackers got access to every user’s local username, password, and email address.

July 20, 2013, 7:52 pm
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I am breaking this news for you that operating system Ubuntu has got its forum hacked as a result of a breach in which the hacker has got access  to every user's local username, password, and email address just few moments ago. Ubuntu forum has been taken down by the admins and a message is displaying, revealing that there has been a massive attack on their forums in which usernames and passwords of every user has been compromise. The message on the site is given below along with a screenshot.
  • Unfortunately the attackers have gotten every user's local username, password, and email address from the Ubuntu Forums database.
  • The passwords are not stored in plain text. However, if you were using the same password as your Ubuntu Forums one on another service (such as email), you are strongly encouraged to change the password on the other service ASAP.
  • Ubuntu One, Launchpad and other Ubuntu/Canonical services are NOT affected by the breach.
All users have been requested to change their password ASAP. This is not the first time when Ubuntu has been hacked, just few days ago some unknown hackers hacked into the site and got hold of user details. Stay with us for more information on the breach in case of any update!
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Mobile Messaging Service Tango Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

July 20, 2013, 10:29 pm
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mobile-messaging-service-tango-hacked-by-syrian-electronic-army-2 The Syrian Electronic Army has breached into the official website of Tango (Tango.me) a popular mobile messaging service based in Mountain View, California. Hack was announced by the hackers on their official website, according to which the hackers have allegedly downloading 1.5 TB of daily backups including usernames, emails, addresses along with other contact details of site's users and subscribers. On their Twitter account, the hackers left several tweets related to hack:  mobile-messaging-service-tango-hacked-by-syrian-electronic-army The hackers mentioned on their blog that the company has its servers shutdown after the hack and official site is redirected to company's official Facebook page. Just few days ago, the Syrian Electronic Army had breached into the system of TrueCaller which is a global phone directory application for smartphones. At the time of publishing this article, the site was offline and redirected to company's Facebook page.
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Website of Tameer Microfinance Bank Pakistan Hacked and Defaced by PakBugs

July 21, 2013, 4:33 pm
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website-of-tameer-micro-finance-bank-hacked-defaced-by-pakbugs Two Pakistani hackers going with the handle of Xploiter and Dr.Freak from PakBugs hacking group have hacked and defaced the official website of Tameer Microfinance Bank (TMFB) which is Pakistan's Largest and the first private commercial Microfinance bank.

Hackers left their deface page along with a message on the hacked website which shows the reason for attacking bank site is actually a cyber law act which will be passed from Pakistan's national assembly. The hackers want a proper cyber law act that should include laws against poorly coded and insecure websites.    The deface message was explained in following words: 
  • You Didn't Got Lesson after PKNIC , Soneri Bank and Habib Bank , Allied bank , MCB 's infrastructure was Hacked ? Yesterday i got a News Cyber Act gonna be pass in National Assembly But There Must be a Law for Website development!  Cyber Act Going to be Passed Next Month! But There Must be a Law for Websites Construction Same Like Building's Construction  Poorly Coded Pakistani Websites should not be passed to Be Published, Same Like poorly constructed houses are not passed.  If you add it to your Cyber Act 90% of your Cyber Space will be Secured ! Think  Secured Pakistani Cyber Space Zindabad!
It is yet unclear if the hackers have got access to any kind of sensitive data or if any personal data has been exposed online or not. However, the message to the government is indeed delivered by the continues high profile hacks by PakBugs. Link of targeted website is mentioned below but the mirror is yet not available. At the time of publishing this article, the website was hacked and displaying deface page left by the hackers.
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Syrian Electronic Army hacks Online Newspaper The Daily Dot, removes article

July 23, 2013, 3:29 am
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[caption id="attachment_16357" align="aligncenter" width="819"]syrian-electronic-army-hacks-daily-dot-removes-article An inside screenshot from The Daily Dot's admin panel[/caption] The Syrian Electronic Army has hacked into the official website of an Online Newspaper The Daily Dot and removed an article related to their latest Mobile Messaging Service Tango.me hack.

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On 22nd July 2013, Curt Hopkins of The Daily Dot had posted an article along with a caricature of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The hackers then requested the newspaper for removing the image making fun of their president which the newspaper ignored.  That is when hackers hacked into the Gmail account of one of its staff and also gain access to the site's admin panel and deleted the Tango.me article. Below is a screenshot of series of Tweets sent by Syrian Electronic Army to The Daily Dot admin:

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SoftPedia reports that hackers also posted several images including ones of emails sent out to Daily Dot staff about the Syrian Electronic Army’s “threat.” The Daily Dot staff was also warned by its authorities to be careful and do not click on any suspicious links as it could be a phishing link sent by the Syrian Electronic Army. It seems that despite of warning email, someone fell for the phishing trick. However, at the time of publishing this article, the news article that was removed by hackers was restored and available on the newspaper's site.
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Website of Phone and texting app ‘Viber’ Hacked & Defaced by Syrian Electronic Army

July 23, 2013, 12:35 pm
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[caption id="attachment_16377" align="aligncenter" width="621"]Website of Phone and texting app ‘Viber’ Hacked & Defaced by Syrian Electronic Army Deface page left by the hacker on Viber website[/caption] The hardcore pro- Bashar Ul Asad hackers from Syrian Electronic Army have hacked and defaced the official support sub-domain of famous phone and texting App Viber. The hack was announced by the hackers on their official website according to which they have downloaded some of the app databases after gaining access to soms systems of that app, hackers have also mentioned that reason for defacing this site was against the company's alleged spying on its users. [caption id="attachment_16379" align="aligncenter" width="746"]Viber-hacked-Website of Phone and texting app ‘Viber’ Hacked & Defaced by Syrian Electronic Army Screenshot of internal hacked database of Viber released by hackers[/caption]
  • Syrian Electronic Army hacked today the website and the database of  the Israeli-based "Viber" app. The SEA downloaded some of the app databases And after we gain access to soms systems of that app, it was clear for us that the propuse of this app is spying and tracking of its users. The SEA hacked the support page of the Viber app and uploaded screenshots of one of the app systems in addition to the app administrators names/phone numbers.
It is unclear if the acquired information will be used against anyone or if it has been sent to the Syrian government but hackers are keen that this app was spying on its users and users should not use this app. Link of hacked site along with its mirror is available below: Viber is a Cyprus based proprietary cross-platform instant messaging voice-over-Internet Protocol application for smartphones developed by Viber Media with development centers in Belarus and Israel. The company was founded by American-Israeli entrepreneur Talmon Marco(lahmam). Earlier this morning, the Syrian Electronic Army had hacked the official website an online newspaper Daily Dot against a caricature of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad while few days ago Mobile Messaging Service Tango  and TrueCaller Phone Directory was also hacked. At the time of publishing this article, deface page was removed and support site was taken down.
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Venezuela Military Domains Hacked by Dr.SHA6H and Colombian Hacker

July 28, 2013, 3:57 pm
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In two different cyber attacks three official sub-domains of Venezuelan military server (mil.ve) were hacked and defaced by hackers going with the handle of Dr.SHA6H and ColombianH. First attack was conducted by Dr.SHA6H on 19th July 2013 in which two sub-domains of Venezuelan military websites were hacked and left defaced with a message about ongoing war in Syria. The deface message was expressed in following words:
  • These are initiatives that guide the whole world, F**k UN, USA, Arab and all gov! This is one of the children who died; who was waiting for the human rights organizations for his defense.
The second attack was conducted was conducted on 24th July 29, 2013 in which one domain from Venezuelan military was hacked and left with a simple note expressed in following words:
  • Hacked By @R4lph_is_Here // Colombian Hacker Steam
Targeted sites belong to Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's technical military institute (www.atmb.mil.ve/robots.txt), website of Carlos Arvelo Military Hospital (www.docencia.hospitalmilitar.mil.ve) and another domain of  same Military Hospital (www.dei.hospitalmilitar.mil.ve). Mirrors of targeted websites are mentioned below: At the time of publishing this article, technical military institute had the deface page on it while other two sites were restored but one of them was offline.
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Official Twitter account of UAE’s Foreign Minister Hacked and Restored

July 28, 2013, 5:02 pm
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Just few moments ago the official Twitter account of United Arab Emirates (UAE)'s Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan was hacked by an unknown hacker. The Twitter account with more then 813,333 account was illegally acceded by intruder found tweeting the Foreign Minister's blackberry pin number but for privacy reasons we will not post any screenshot containing the minister's blackberry pin. However, the minister confirmed that problem is solved and his account is back.   [caption id="attachment_16476" align="aligncenter" width="563"]official-twitter-account-of-uaes-foreign-minister-hacked Original Twitter account of UAE's Foreign Minister[/caption] The hacker who hacked the twitter account renamed the Foreign Minister's from @ABZayed to @Khaled_alfaizye. I was able to take a screenshot before twitter restored the account: [caption id="attachment_16477" align="aligncenter" width="586"]Screenshot of account when hacked and renamed Screenshot of account when hacked and renamed[/caption] It is unclear who was behind the hack what were the motives but good news is that account has been restored and back in the control of its owner.
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Thomson Reuters Official Twitter Account Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

July 30, 2013, 1:56 am
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The hackers from Syrian Electronic Army have hacked the official Twitter account of New York based multinational media and information firm Thomson Reuters Corporation.  After getting access of Reuters's Twitter account, hackers started tweeting images and messages expressing their show of power which can be seen in above given screenshot. Hackers known for their hardcore support for Syrian President Bashar-Ul-Assad from Syrian Electronic Army announced the hack on their official website along with a screenshot showing the hackers have access to the Reuters's Twitter handle.  On their website, the hackers explained why the Twitter account was targeted and what happened when they got access of media giant Twitter handle: 

  • The Syrian Electronic Army was here, we hacked today the official account of Thomson Reuters and published some truth about what is really happening in Syria!

However, the Twitter authorities suspended the Thomson Reuters's twitter account within one hour of hack and at the time of publishing this article, the account was restored yet unclear if it has been under control of it's real owners or not. This is not the first time when Syrian Electronic Army has hacked Twitter account of big fish media giant, in past official twitter accounts of UK based The Telegraph News, ITV News London, Financial Times, twitter account of The Onion Satirical Newspaper, E!Online, 11 account of Guardian Newspaper, The Associated Press, CBS, BBC Network, German Broadcaster Deutsche Welle’s (DW) Twitter, Human Rights Watch, France 24 Arabia and France 24 Observers, Qatar Foundation’s Twitter, AFP Photo and Sky News Arabia were hacked and used by the hackers. This hack proves that Twitter's 2 step verification does not provide any kind of security measure to user account.
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