The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) seems to be everywhere at the moment and their latest piracy conquest affected the websites of Washington post , CNN and Time magazine, placing links on the site to redirect readers to the ATS website for a short period of time.
The redirection is due to a security breach at Outbrain, a company that provides binding recommendations for the three sites. A group spokesman said that staff had been duped by a fraudulent email that claimed to be CEO of the company. Outbrain immediately took down their service once they realized what had happened, then took seven hours to make sure everything was fixed and working properly before they relaunched their site.
For Washington Post This attack marks the second attempt the target of SEA to paper in the space of a week. The editor of the publication Emilio Garcia-Ruiz said, "There are some days, the Syrian Electronic Army, allegedly submitted newsroom of Post employees to a sophisticated phishing attack to obtain password information password ". At present, however, the three sites concerned believe that nothing has changed on their pages other than the content of links.
Chester Wisniewski, a security advisor at Sophos, condemned the attack and warned that it was the same kind of technique used by hackers trying to get malware out in the web. He said, "In this case, it can only be sent to the website of the Syrian Electronic Army, but it could also be used to install viruses or copy cookies to try to impersonate later , a visitor.
Douglas McCabe, a consultant of Enders Analysis of the industry, warned that the attack was symptomatic of a broader challenge facing the media: "It is a reminder that although organizations digital press have lower distribution costs, those of technology and security are the sophistication of the technology to. protect sites continues to grow. the commercial and editorial implications periods down for major events of news are clearly reaching.
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