Syrian Electronic Army in news site 'hack' POP-UP MAYHEM

  • 27 November 2014
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By Jasper Hamill, 27 Nov 2014
 
The Syrian Electronic Army has hacked a number of news websites after apparently compromising a third party content delivery network, possibly an advertising network.
The Pro-Assad javascript popup appeared across several websites, including The Telegraph, The Independent, Forbes, Time Out, PC World and The Evening Standard.
 
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A bit more information on the subject.
 
by Pierluigi Paganini on November 27th, 2014
 

High profile global websites using the customer management platform Gigya suffered a traffic redirection attack operated by the Syrian Electronic Army.

A significant number of popular websites belonging to media organizations appeared to has been hacked by the hacking collective of Syrian Electronic Army on Thursday.
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