Both the US Department of Justice and the FBI issued on Tuesday charges of cybersquatting addressed to three Syrians belong to what is known as the Syrian Electronic Army, a subsidiary of the Syrian regime piracy group has been active in the period that followed the outbreak of the Syrian revolution.
US federal police have been able to identify three suspects belonging to the Syrian Electronic Army contributed to penetrate the sites and accounts of social belonging to the US media names, they are all from Ahmed Omar Agha (22 years), and Firas Dardar (27 years) and Peter Romar (36 years). Police were directed to the defendants numerous charges including dissemination of false rumors about terrorist attacks, and to try to bring about a rebellion in the American armed forces, and damage with computers and spread malicious software and steal information in addition to other charges.
The charges include a variety of activities carried out by the team, including penetrate Harvard University site in October 2011, and penetrating account of Twitter, told Reuters in August 2012, and the theft of data from the staff in the Washington Post and Human Rights Watch.
Police has published photographs of wanted obtained after it was able to identify and monitor their e-mail addresses, and announced a prize of $ 100,000 to those who will provide information to help arrest them.
The Syrian electronic army began its activities in 2011, a few months after the start of the demonstrations, the opposition to the Assad regime, where the main task of the army-mail pursue and track down opposition activists, before moving to penetrate the sites and accounts of Western social networking using the means of old and simple tricks but they have shown their effectiveness, a a combination of social engineering attacks Phishing Phishing. However, the Group's activities had almost ceased in the early period of last year
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