Hackers attacked sites of the main world media

Forbes, The Daily Telegraph, Al-Jazira and other editions were attacked

A group of hackers, calling itself the "Syrian Electronic Army", hacked several sites of the main world publications. The British newspapers The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, the Evenging Standard, The Daily Express, the American version of Forbes, Chicago Tribune, Canadian CBC, Katar al-Dzhazira, Italian La, Italian La were attacked. Repubblica.

In addition, hackers violated the work of sites of the National Hockey League, the French football club Toulouse, manufacturers of Dell and Logitech electronics. There were reports of hacks in Mexico, New Zealand and other countries.

On some sites, when trying to enter, a notification is issued that the page of the Syrian Electronic Army is hacked, others simply do not open. On The Independent, the image of the Syrian hackers logo, which is stored here , is issued. Forbes demonstrated the same behavior. Not all users are observed with access problems.

The Webrazzzi publication suggested that the hackers initially hacked the Gigya service, which allows users to authorize users through social networks, and after that they were able to place their code in the publication. The GIGYA service was used by Forbes, The Telegraph, The Independent, Al-Dzhazira, PC World and other sites.

This version is indirectly confirmed by the tweet of the "Syrian Electronic Army", to which the screenshot from the GODADDY domain registration service with GIGYA.COM is attached. In their message, hackers demanded that the press would not perceive as civilians of the militants of the “Islamic state” fighting against the Syrian government.

The Syrian Electronic Army positions itself as an independent association, but, according to the observation of journalists, supports the current president of the country Bashar al -Assad. The Syrian hackers previously hacked the website of the American newspaper The Washington Post, CNN and Time magazine, CNN, Microsoft accounts and US President Barack Obama on social networks, and once rewritten the Facebook.com domain.

In an interview with Lente.ru in May 2013, the leadership of the Syrian Electronic Army explained the attacks on the media: “The media exist in a single -polar world, they work unfairly. They do not deliver information about what is actually happening in Syria, and even incite. Therefore, we intervene. We correct injustice, publishing facts and documents. We believe that this is our right. ”