The Pro Hacker Group Syrian Electronic Army caught media attention again by hacking UK Based Media Websites. They displayed a Thanksgiving pop up informing people that they were hacked.
The Forbes, The Independent, The Chicago Tribune, The Daily Telegraph, The London Evening Standard, broadcaster CNBC, PC World and the US National Hockey League were among those popular websites affected by the group.
Although all site visitors were not affected by the attack, but some visitors using a line of Javascript were redirected to SEA web pages with the message "You’ve been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army." said The Hacker News Blog Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014.
A Twitter account linked to the SEA group claimed responsibility for attacking Global media organizations, appearing to link it to ISIS — a reference to the Islamic State terrorist organization, which is fighting against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad.
"Happy thanksgiving, hope you didn't miss us! The press: Please don't pretend #ISIS are civilians. #SEA," said a message posted by the group to a Twitter feed.
The SEA group is the same hackers group popular for its advance phishing attack and using the same technique they also hacked into the Official Twitter account of Microsoft News, Xbox Support, Skype and also defaced the Microsoft, Skype Official Blog pages in the past.
Source: The Hacker News
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