The FBI Cyber Division has issued an alert to media outlets to beware compromise by the Syrian Electronic Army. The alert was issued following the SEA’s large disruption of The New York Times website and smaller outages at Twitter and The Huffington Post U.K. The SEA’s primary capabilities include spear-phishing, Web defacements, and hijacking social media accounts to spread propaganda. The group appears to have graduated from mere Twitter account takeovers to stealing details on users of video and voice app Tango.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/fbi-warns-of-syrian-electronic-army-hacking-threat