| Title | Independent.co.uk & Several Other Websites Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army | |
| Date | Friday November 28 2014, @04:47PM | |
| Author | LaminatorX | |
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| from the electronic-warfare dept. | ||
The Independent is currently displaying a message that "You've been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA)." So are several other high profile sites.
The Guardian reports:
A portion of visitors to all those sites are presented with a blank screen and a javascript popup telling them “you have been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army”. The group apparently exploited a fault with a content delivery network (CDN).
Blame fell on the ad network due to the sporadic nature of the outages, which are difficult to replicate and spread over a number of sites.
Such symptoms are common for attacks delivered through an ad or content delivery network, which serves third-party code across a number of websites.
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