Syria

WhatsApp To Bypass Regime Internet Shutdowns

Iran, China blow? Internet shutdowns by authoritarian regimes will not prevent WhatsApp users from messaging, Meta confirms

2 years ago

Huawei CFO Case Deepens Amid Documents Discovery

Sanction busting? Documents reportedly show suspected ties to two front companies used to sell kit to Iran

6 years ago

Syrian Malware Team Thought To Be Behind BlackWorm RAT

A lesser-known group of pro-government hackers is pushing sophisticated malware

10 years ago

Syrian Malware Is On The Rise, Warns Kaspersky

As the civil war in Syria enters its fourth year, cyber warfare shows no sign of abating

10 years ago

Syrian Internet Restored After Nationwide Blackout

War-torn Syria suffers another nationwide online blackout, with fingers pointed firmly at the Government

11 years ago

Feds Probe Sales Of Dell PCs To Syria

The sale of Dell PCs by a third party to the Syrian regime is being investigated by US federal authorities

11 years ago

How Anonymous Plans To Expose Syrian Electronic Army Leaders

Anonymous hacktivist tells TechWeek his crew are gathering plenty of data on four leaders of the SEA

11 years ago

New York Times Downed By Syrian Electronic Army

The website of the New York Times has been taken offline in the latest Syrian Electronic Army attack

11 years ago

Syria’s Online Conflict: The Hackers And Their Weapons

Attacks on missile warning services, sophisticated malware campaigns and the Syrian Electronic Army make for a chaotic cyber conflict, TechWeek…

11 years ago

Washington Post, CNN And Others Hit By Syrian Electronic Army

Hackers breach Outbrain feeds to spread their message across major media websites

11 years ago

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Blog Of Channel 4 Presenter Jon Snow

Fake nuclear bomb story posted on Snow's blog, as Channel 4 blogs remain down

11 years ago

Syrian Electronic Army Strikes Again With FT Hacks

Financial Times has blogs and Twitter feeds taken over

12 years ago

Syria Internet Down Yet Again

Outage the second in the last eight days

12 years ago

Internet In Syria Down, Country Remains Offline

An ongoing outage cuts Syria off from the rest of the world

12 years ago

Syrian Electronic Army Hijacks Guardian Twitter Accounts

Hacking crew makes a mockery of Twitter account security again

12 years ago

AP Twitter Feed Hacked And Claims White House Attack

Hackers compromised the Twitter feeds of the Associated Press and falsely reported White House explosions

12 years ago

FIFA President Sepp Blatter Twitter Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army

Syrian government supporters post Sepp Blatter's resignation on his Twitter acount

12 years ago

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks NPR

Group continues its offensive on western news sources

12 years ago

Syrian Internet Downed Again

Syria saw its Internet go down for close to an hour on Tuesday

12 years ago

Syria Internet Down But Spyware Still Connecting Out

War-torn nation loses connectivity as heavy fighting around Damascus erupts

12 years ago

HP Spy Gear Not ‘Knowingly’ Supplied To Syria

HP says kit may have found its way to Syria through third parties

12 years ago

Al-Jazeera SMS Service Hacked By Pro-Syrian Group

Pro-Syrian hackers out in force again

12 years ago

Amnesty International Blog Hacked As Bogus Syria Campaign Pulled

Fake blog claims calls on the US, Qatar and Turkey to stop funding Syrian rebels

12 years ago

Syrian Spying Tool DarkComet Killed

Remote access tool killed by its creator, but the Syrian government may still be using it

12 years ago

WikiLeaks Releases 2.5m ‘Syrian Emails’

WikiLeaks' Syria emails embarrass governments across the world, Assange claims

12 years ago

Syrian Government Pushing Malware To Activists Via Skype

Bashar al-Assad’s government infects rebels’ computers with Remote Access Tools

13 years ago

Human Rights Body Avaaz Under ‘Massive Cyber Attack’

Avaaz suspects a government or a private business to be behind what it claims is a massive cyber attack on…

13 years ago

Syria Bans iPhones To Stop Protestors Talking

Apple's iPhone banned to silence reports of violence against protestors in Syria's Arab Spring revolt

13 years ago

Hosting Services May Be Breaking Syrian Sanctions

Syrian government sites hosted in the US, Canada and Germany may break internatiobnal sanctions

13 years ago

Syrian Internet Cut Off During Protests

About two-thirds of Syria's Internet access was cut off on Friday, amidst some of the biggest protests to date

13 years ago