Syrian Cyber
Hackers Charged
Two From ‘Syrian Electronic Army’ Added to Cyber’s
Most Wanted
03/22/16
Three individuals from a Syrian programmer aggregate that commandeered the sites and online networking stages of noticeable U.S. media associations and the U.S. military were charged today in government court with numerous intrigues identified with PC hacking.
In two criminal protests unlocked in the Eastern District of Virginia, Amad Umar Agha, Firas Dardar, and Peter Romar were accused of criminal schemes identified with their parts focusing on Internet destinations in the U.S. what's more abroad in the interest of the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), a gathering of programmers that backings the administration of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The influenced destinations—which included PC frameworks in the Executive Office of the President in 2011 and a U.S. Marine Corps enrollment site in 2013—were esteemed via SEA to be adversarial toward the Syrian government.
As per the charges, Agha, 22, referred to online as "The Pro," and Dardar, 27, occupied with a multi-year scheme that started in 2011 to gather usernames and passwords that gave them the capacity to mutilate sites, divert spaces to destinations controlled by the plotters, take email, and commandeer online networking accounts. To acquire the login data they utilized a method called "lance phishing," where they deceived individuals who had favored access to their associations' sites and online networking channels into volunteering touchy data by acting like a real element.
Dardar, referred to online as "The Shadow," additionally worked with Peter "Pierre" Romar, 36, on a plan starting in 2013 to coerce U.S. organizations for benefit. As indicated by the grumbling, the pair would hack into the casualties' PCs and after that debilitate to harm PCs, and erase or offer the information unless they were paid a payment.
Different case of the plotters' hacks include:
1. Compromising the Twitter record of a conspicuous U.S. media association in 2013 and discharging a tweet guaranteeing that a bomb had blasted at the White House and harmed the President.
2. Gaining control of a U.S. Marine Corps enrolling site and posting a message encouraging Marines to "Deny [their] orders."
In an announcement, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Carlin said the plotters' coercion plans undermine their own cases of working for a respectable purpose—to bolster the beset administration of their leader. "While a portion of the movement looked to hurt the financial and national security of the United States for the sake of Syria, these point by point affirmations uncover that the individuals likewise utilized coercion to attempt to line their own pockets to the detriment of reputable individuals everywhere throughout the world," Carlin said.
Source: https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2016/march/two-from-syrian-electronic-army-added-to-cybers-most-wanted/two-from-syrian-electronic-army-added-to-cybers-most-wanted
Three individuals from a Syrian programmer aggregate that commandeered the sites and online networking stages of noticeable U.S. media associations and the U.S. military were charged today in government court with numerous intrigues identified with PC hacking.
In two criminal protests unlocked in the Eastern District of Virginia, Amad Umar Agha, Firas Dardar, and Peter Romar were accused of criminal schemes identified with their parts focusing on Internet destinations in the U.S. what's more abroad in the interest of the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), a gathering of programmers that backings the administration of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The influenced destinations—which included PC frameworks in the Executive Office of the President in 2011 and a U.S. Marine Corps enrollment site in 2013—were esteemed via SEA to be adversarial toward the Syrian government.
As per the charges, Agha, 22, referred to online as "The Pro," and Dardar, 27, occupied with a multi-year scheme that started in 2011 to gather usernames and passwords that gave them the capacity to mutilate sites, divert spaces to destinations controlled by the plotters, take email, and commandeer online networking accounts. To acquire the login data they utilized a method called "lance phishing," where they deceived individuals who had favored access to their associations' sites and online networking channels into volunteering touchy data by acting like a real element.
Dardar, referred to online as "The Shadow," additionally worked with Peter "Pierre" Romar, 36, on a plan starting in 2013 to coerce U.S. organizations for benefit. As indicated by the grumbling, the pair would hack into the casualties' PCs and after that debilitate to harm PCs, and erase or offer the information unless they were paid a payment.
Different case of the plotters' hacks include:
1. Compromising the Twitter record of a conspicuous U.S. media association in 2013 and discharging a tweet guaranteeing that a bomb had blasted at the White House and harmed the President.
2. Gaining control of a U.S. Marine Corps enrolling site and posting a message encouraging Marines to "Deny [their] orders."
In an announcement, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Carlin said the plotters' coercion plans undermine their own cases of working for a respectable purpose—to bolster the beset administration of their leader. "While a portion of the movement looked to hurt the financial and national security of the United States for the sake of Syria, these point by point affirmations uncover that the individuals likewise utilized coercion to attempt to line their own pockets to the detriment of reputable individuals everywhere throughout the world," Carlin said.
Source: https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2016/march/two-from-syrian-electronic-army-added-to-cybers-most-wanted/two-from-syrian-electronic-army-added-to-cybers-most-wanted
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