The notorious Syrian group says this will not impact their operations and hacks

Jan 15, 2014 08:21 GMT  ·  By

The website of the Syrian Electronic Army (sea.sy) and the leaks subdomain (leaks.sea.sy) have been defaced by Turkish hackers of the group Turkguvenligi. The attackers have apparently compromised the SEA’s website through its hosting provider.

The attack appears to come in response to the Syrian Electronic Army’s attacks against Turkey.

“You imbecils will attack our country with fake phishing emails and we'll accept your lies and dont do anything ? That is the end you deserve: ‘And never think that Allah is unaware of what the wrongdoers do. He only delays them for a Day when eyes will stare [in horror]’,” Turkguvenligi wrote on the defaced page.

“The hosting company that hosts #SEA websites, including (http://leaks.sea.sy ) was attacked,” the Syrian Electronic Army’s representatives stated. “Since the #SEA servers is managed by the hosting company, they down the servers quickly to make sure that will not happen again.”

The hacktivist group says such attacks don’t affect their “hacks and operations.”

Turkguvenligi says it hacked the systems of the Russian hosting company by exploiting “many kind of web vulnerabilities.” They claim to have breached the organization’s systems in just 2 days. However, the Syrian Electronic Army says it actually took the Turkish hackers over 7 months to do it.

“We hoped that Turkguvenligi is really sophisticated, but when we found out the method of their hacks, we were really disappointed,” the Syrian Electronic Army noted.

The Turkish hackers also said they obtained the “real IDs” of the Syrian group’s members. However, the SEA says they haven’t put their real IDs on public websites.

Judging by the last messages posted on Twitter by each group, we’ll probably see more confrontations between the SEA and Turkguvenligi.

At the time of writing, the Syrian Electronic Army’s website is offline.