The pro Hacker Group Syrian Electronic Army successfuly managed to get full control over the The domain registrant system of Qatar, Domain name with .qa, .biz.qa, .com.qa, .edu.qa, .gov.qa, .info.qa, .mil.qa, .name.qa, .net.qa, .org.qa, .sch.qa are regulated by ICT qatar. and were effected. Sea some how was able to get access to the admin panel and change the dns information of Many of the websites. which caused the Websites being redirected to deface page with the picture of president AL-Assad, shown in the above screenshot.
#Qatar Domain Names System Owned by #SEA #SyrianElectronicArmy pic.twitter.com/2bTxfP7r1Z
โ SyrianElectronicArmy (@Official_SEA16) October 18, 2013
One of the several tweets fired by Syrian Electronic Army over twitter.
A screenshot tweeted by sea On their official twitter account shows they were having full control of Registry system Portal of qatar.
A series of tweet fired from the Account showed various websites were effected, includingย https://google.com.qaย ,ย ooredoo.com.qaย ,ย ย diwan.gov.qaย ,ย qaf.mil.qa,ย ย https://mofa.gov.qa,ย ย aljazeera.net.qaย ,ย https://isp.qaย ,ย https://vodafone.qaย ,ย gov.qaย ,ย https://mozabintnasser.qaย ,ย qtel.com.qa,ย ย facebook.qaย ,ย qe.com.qaย ,ย moi.gov.qaย ,
At the time of writing the Article most of the websites were still showing the deface page while other were still down.
It is not the first time when SEA has been successful over carrying out their attack. and to this they have added some more victims to their list.
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