BREAKING NEWS: Syrian Electronic Army takes down New York Times website

Makes you wonder though, what if the CIA redirected all facebook or google traffic at a range of IPs?

Like some sort of internet machine gun with limitless amounts of simultaneously fired bullets.

Scary what that could achieve considering when google went out for a few minutes, some 40% plunge in all global internet data.......

40% off the entire internet directed at even a million IP addresses, would probably crash them all


edit: tweets? whats that? oh well it must be really them! Whos needs news or investigators, we have twitter! /sarcasm off

reply to post by TKDRL


I was just thinking the same thing. Everyone checking, refreshing, checking again.
More like Heckling, than hacking.

reply to post by ATSmediaPRO


That's photo-shopped or they just edited the HTML to make it look hacked.

Link

Oh the propaganda is rageing. I'm not buying that Syrians did this at all. I'm guessing it was the same people that figured out how take down the NY Times a week or two ago, after the story was posted about the Clinton foundations running huge deficits.

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Real Whois says...



ETA: Hmmm....

Interestingly, both The New York Times and Twitter name servers appear to have been registered through the registrar Melbourne IT. This led some to posit that a breach at the registrar allowed changes to be made, possibly with an administrative account. This would explain why the changes are being made across several companies. The New York Times has now confirmed that his is true.

Sou rce

It's just NSA testing their new code

Figured someone did. I tried to access an article found on Drudge this morning and got a 404.

reply to post by Laxpla


First off, thank you for the positive contribution to this thread, countless breakthroughs were made because of your astute remark.....

Washington Post: Why the Syrian Electronic Army loves to hack the American media

So why do they do it? The group appears, based on its past attacks, to have pretty simple motivations: attention for itself and punishment for Western media organization they perceive as biased against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian Electronic Army actually makes a lot more sense if you think of them as pranksters who also happen to love Assad than as state-aligned hackers in pursuit of concrete

The effect of the hacks is typically not to steal information or sabotage institutions, but rather to hijack the targeted outlet for a few minutes, plastering it with the group’s message and perhaps some condemnation of U.S. policy toward Syria. Their hacking power seems to exist purely to demonstrate their hacking power, taking down popular sites purely to claim credit for it. To paraphrase the great Web comic XKCD, it’s less like breaking into the New York Times than defacing the New York Times.

The Verge: Syrian Electronic Army also targets Twitter with latest hack

In a tweet, the hackers claimed to have gained access to the DNS servers for Twitter.com, along with the Huffington Post UK. Tests showed the records were indeed changed, but nameservers continued to redirect to the correct IPs, and the change was most likely a result of the breach in a DNS records holding site.

Twitter's image server, hosted separately at twimg.com, may be a different story. Multiple users on Twitter reported their backgrounds being changed to Syrian themed images, and DNS records first found by security reporter Brian Krebs confirm that twimg.com was briefly redirecting to an SEA-affiliated site.

The New Web: Twitter, NYTimes and Huff Po Whois and DNS records altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility

For the NY Times, the situation was (and remains) equally serious with subdomains being created and even reports of the homepage being redirected. The NY Times has since issued a statement claiming the issues were related to an attack on the company’s domain name registrar Melbourne IT.

“The New York Times Web site was unavailable to readers on Tuesday afternoon following an attack on the company’s domain name registrar, Melbourne IT. The attack also required employees of The Times to stop sending out sensitive e-mails.”

HuffingtonPost UK also had its DNS records altered but as 4pm PST both HuffingtonPost UK’s whois and DNS records as well as those of Twitter’s appears to have been corrected. Twimg and NY Times’ still include records pointing to the SEA.

I expect a lot more of these type of attacks to be occurring in the future.

reply to post by Zarniwoop


Cheers Zarni, as with all things wordy, the words get in the way.

Key word here being electronic.

There are no borders on the internet. No countries. Nothing that defines you but you yourself.

On the internet, I.P., U.P., We all Pee together.

reply to post by ATSmediaPRO


I call BS.

Why would Syria attack our media?

Huffingtonpost? twitter? Come on. NSA did this and they want us to believe that the Syria did this.

reply to post by Zarniwoop


Remind me to read a thread entirely before going screen capping, cropping etc etc..



Or to get up a lot earlier on days off....

Looking at twitter whois now saying

Sponsoring Registrar Organizationomain Exploitation International

whois.net...

Down for me, viewing (or trying to) from the UK...

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Yep, it is legit, good catch

Originally posted by sulaw
Syria took down the NYtimes for 10mins.....

NSA hacked the country in 2.5mins....

Well played NSA.... Well Played....

Sheer genius in that statement, Oh how I chuckled

The NSA should show their true colours, "blah, some Syrian sympathizers think they can hack huh? Watch us hack the Queen of Englands bank account in under a tenth of a second."

No-one comes close to the threat posed by the governments of the west on their own people, never mind some puny and pointless cyber attack on a newspaper.

Originally posted by Zarniwoop
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ETA: Hmmm....

Interestingly, both The New York Times and Twitter name servers appear to have been registered through the registrar Melbourne IT. This led some to posit that a breach at the registrar allowed changes to be made, possibly with an administrative account. This would explain why the changes are being made across several companies. The New York Times has now confirmed that his is true.

Sou rce

Registrar Melbourne IT is often Yahoo associatied...now take into account this
is seemingly based in SF....its a big hmmmm.

time for a new shovel .. the bovine fecal material piling up too fast since the u.s decided to open up blatant propaganda ..
nice fairytale syrian army hackers taking down ny times .. shame it wasnt permanent ..

Breaking NEWS! The Syrian Army has hacked HAARP and is causing massive flooding in western united states!


ooops that was a lie...but it did rain today in NW Oregon...
It was nice :-)

Back to the doom porn:

I have noticed some slow movement on the Internet the last couple of days. Its probably something local but my carrier had received a lot of calls. It appears China had a big cyber attack Sunday (link below). I wouldn't be surprised if there was some group out there that would feel pleasure at knocking us all offline. Thinking it would reset things somehow. So many weirdos in the world its only a matter of time before one pops up. Hopefully that would be impossible. looks like too much ATS lately. Getting caught up in doom thinking.

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