14 DAY TRIAL // In response to Anonymous defacing the Syrian Ministry of Defence website late last week, a group of hackers broke into Anon Plus and left a message on its home page.
Anonymous hacktivists hijacked mod.gov.sy over the weekend to leave an encouragement message for Syrian pro-democracy protesters and call on the country's Army to stop its crackdown against the uprising.
A group of Syrian pro-government hackers responded yesterday by hacking into AnonPlus.com, the hacktivist group's alleged social networking project.
"In response to your hacking to the website of Syrian Ministry of Defence, the Syrian people have decided to purify the Internet of our [sic.] pathetic website.
"Your website has been hacked, and he we leave you these photos showing the scale of terrorism committed by Muslim Bortherhood Organization, whose members have been killing Syrian citizens - civilians and military.
"You are defending this terrorits [sic.] organization and this is our response.. here is photos of the Syrian Army Martyrs," the message left by the hackers reads. The defaced page also contained violent photos.
The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab attributed the hack to the "Syrian Electronic Army" in a tweet. However, the affiliation of Anon Plus with Anonymous is not very clear.
The project was originally the idea of a group of bloggers known as Presstorm and was announced after Google closed several Anonymous-related Google+ accounts. Anon Plus promised to be a social network that respects free speech.
Since then Presstorm has parted ways with the project and is planning to create its separate network. The status of Anon Plus as an Anonymous project is not accepted by everyone.
"Turns out people were correct: anonplus.com was a troll domain. Belongs to 'fro' aka 'cnaperth' aka 'Adam Bennett' from Perth, Aussie," alleged LulzSec leader @anonymouSabu tweeted.
