Syrian electronic warfare forces break through famous websites such as Twitter

Sina Science and technology news Beijing time, August 28 morning, the Syrian Electronic warfare force (the Syrian Electronic Army) in Tuesday claimed that the two Web site's domain name servers were responsible for attacks, and another site appears to have been jumped to the organization's hosted servers. In addition, the New York Times and The Huffington Post British version of the domain name server has been attacked. The New York Times said in Tuesday that attacks on the site were launched by its domain registrar Melbourne it. Once the Syrian electronic warfare force has obtained the registration record, it can change the contact method and the domain name server. The Syrian electronic warfare forces claim to have controlled several of Twitter's international domain names. Issues related to the Twitter image hosting service began to emerge after the Syrian Electronic Warfare unit claimed responsibility for the New York Times's DNS records being hacked. After these problems emerged, a Twitter account of the hacker group posted a message saying that they had controlled the twitter.com domain name. At the same time, Twitter's domain name server does not seem to change, only changing contact information. The Syrian Electronic warfare force later said it was responsible for changes to the Huffington Post's British version and the New York Times domain name server. Another Twitter message from the account mentions Twitter.co.uk's downtime, and the site's DNS records appear to have been changed to the Syrian electronic warfare unit's servers. The twimg.com domain name, which stores images and virtual images for Twitter, has also been directed at the Syrian Electronic Warfare unit's servers. A Twitter spokeswoman said the company was investigating whether the Syrian electronic warfare force had changed its DNS record. "The site has been partially paralyzed, but not completely paralyzed, and we are trying to fix the problem." Allin Melfi Eilleen Murphy, a New York Times spokesman, said, "Our preliminary assessment suggests that this is likely to be caused by a malicious external attack." "Interestingly, the New York Times and Twitter's domain name servers seem to be registered through the Melbourne it, so some people suspect that the domain registrar's vulnerability allows hackers to change the domain name server, which may originate from the Administrator account." This can also explain why the attack has affected a number of companies. According to the technology blog The Next Web report, Melbourne It started managing Twitter's domain name as early as 2009, when the company acquired the latter's high-end DNS business in 2008 when it acquired VeriSign. Marc Frons, the New York Times CIO, issued a statement to employees that the attack originated from "Syrian Mark France or other efforts to disguise their organization". The New York Times staff also received a guidance document asking them to be cautious when sending sensitive emails until things were resolved. This is the New YorkAbout the Times website's second downtime within one months, the last time it happened on August 14. After the failure, the New York Times has been trying to circumvent the problem of DNS server failure, they posted the IP address directly in the Twitter account and posted the news to the news.nytco.com website. The Wall Street Journal lost no time in temporarily removing the toll wall, and even deliberately highlighted the "New York Times" black incident on Twitter. Syrian electronic Warfare forces have launched several high-profile hacking attacks in recent months, including the Associated Press Twitter account, leading to a sharp fall in stock markets this April. The Syrian Electronic Warfare force has also posted false news of the White House attack via Twitter. Twitter then issued a statement saying the twimg.com domain name has been restored and users are no longer affected. But the company has not yet responded to the change in contact information about twitter.com domain names. (PEI)