Friday 14 February 2014
Syrian Electronic Army hacked the popular American business magazine "Forbes" on the valentines day.
The group managed to post "Hacked by the Syrian Electronics Army" article under the list of articles written by Forbes’ Steve Forbes (Chairman of Forbes Media), Travis Bradberry, Matthew Herper, Andy Greenberg, John Dobosz.
It appears the group gained the wordpress login credentials by phishing and social engineering attacks and then edited some of the topics posted on the site.
The "SEA" also managed to hack Forbes official twitter account @forbestech and two of their staff member- @thealexknapp, @samsharf twitter account and tweeted "Syrian Electronics Army Was Here".
The reason behind the hack is said to be the Forbes hatred full post's and the lie's about Syria. Currently the situation is under control. All post,Tweets by SEA are removed also no harm was caused to the site in this hack.
Anyway @Forbes, Don't worry. Just a bad valentines. LOL :D
The group managed to post "Hacked by the Syrian Electronics Army" article under the list of articles written by Forbes’ Steve Forbes (Chairman of Forbes Media), Travis Bradberry, Matthew Herper, Andy Greenberg, John Dobosz.
It appears the group gained the wordpress login credentials by phishing and social engineering attacks and then edited some of the topics posted on the site.
The "SEA" also managed to hack Forbes official twitter account @forbestech and two of their staff member- @thealexknapp, @samsharf twitter account and tweeted "Syrian Electronics Army Was Here".
The reason behind the hack is said to be the Forbes hatred full post's and the lie's about Syria. Currently the situation is under control. All post,Tweets by SEA are removed also no harm was caused to the site in this hack.
Anyway @Forbes, Don't worry. Just a bad valentines. LOL :D
