The Syrian Electronic Army is known for targeting social media in order to spread propaganda. The group social engineered the social media management platform Social Flow. The NY Post accounts were tagged with the message “Syrian Electronic Army Was Here” The group claims that they were able to access the Post’s accounts due to social engineering and compromising the company responsible for their metrics monitoring. The company told customers that an employee’s email account was compromised “in a phishing attack” The attack was possible it seems, as the company Social Flow said it was taking its service offline.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2133853/new-york-post-hit-by-pro-assad-hackers.html