New York Post Social Media Accounts Briefly Hacked
So how does the Syrian Electronic Army do it? The latest victims of the group’s social-media hacking ways, per a report on computerworlduk.com, were the New York Post‘s Facebook page, several individual newspaper reporter Twitter feeds and the Facebook/Twitter pages of social media management company SocialFlow.
Order at both ends has been restored after the Tuesday breaches; the connection here is that the Post uses SocialFlow’s dashboard to manage its accounts. Computer security expert Graham Cluley suggests that the Army relied on their same old tricks:
Chances are that Post and SocialFlow fell victim to the Syrian Electronic Army via the group’s normal method of attack – emailing staff at one media organization with a forged “sent” address in the email header, linking to what claims to be a breaking news story that the recipient should check out.
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