A significant number of popular websites belonging to media organizations appeared to has been hacked by the hacking collective of Syrian Electronic Army on Thursday. Dell, Microsoft, Ferrari and Unicef were also hit by the hackers. Experts have immediately thought to an hack of customer management platform Gigya, which is used by hundreds of leading brands. The group is politically motivated and many security experts consider its campaigns as part of PSYOPs campaign directed by the Syrian Regime. The hackers of SEA team have chosen this date because it is Thanksgiving in the U.S. and probably the majority of Americans are browsing news websites in their spare time.”]
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