Deadeye Jackal (Syrian Electronic Army) is a pro-Syrian government hacker group targeting media, opposition, and government websites.
Analyst brief
Deadeye Jackal (Syrian Electronic Army) is a hacker group supporting the Syrian government. Their primary targets include political opposition, defense sector, Western news media, human rights groups, and government websites in the Middle East and Europe. Their key TTPs involve phishing, malware, website defacement, spamming, and denial of service attacks. Defenders should focus on mitigating targeted phishing campaigns, credential theft, and vulnerabilities in public-facing web applications.
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The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) is a group of computer hackers which first surfaced online in 2011 to support the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Using spamming, website defacement, malware, phishing, and denial of service attacks, it has targeted political opposition groups, western news organizations, human rights groups and websites that are seemingly neutral to the Syrian conflict. It has also hacked government websites in the Middle East and Europe, as well as US defense contractors. As of 2011 the SEA has been *the first Arab country to have a public Internet Army hosted on its national networks to openly launch cyber attacks on its enemies*. The precise nature of SEA's relationship with the Syrian government has changed over time and is unclear