Matthew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.
Editor’s Note: In May 2011, the Wall Street Journal published an article titled “Pentagon: Cyber Attacks Can Count as Acts of War.” The article began, “The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens the door for the U.S. to respond using traditional military force.”
The Syrian Electronic Army decided to take American Thanksgiving and use it to remind the world they are still watching.
A number of major websites, including major media organizations, were targeted by the SEA. Their websites were met with an error message that read “you’ve been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA).”
Other websites featured nothing but the SEA logo.
Dell, Microsoft, Ferrari and even UNICEF were hit by the group.
“It is PR move to show they have the skills, but what they are doing is not dramatically sophisticated,” Ernest Hilbert, managing director of cybercrime at investigations firm Kroll, and former FBI agent, told CNBC, who had been a victim of the group.
“This is a defacement of a website and they redirected traffic from the real site to a site with their stuff on it instead.”
The SEA are a group of hackers that support the government of Bashir al-Assad and claim that western media outlets are backing the terrorist groups that have been fighting against the Syrian regime.
