PICS & VIDEO: Iranian Cyber War Against Twitter

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As what most of you should have realized by now, Twitter was hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army earlier today (or yesterday for people in the US).

If not mistaken, this Army is an Iranian Government group, with a very serious message to convey.

We hope to provide the full story for those who are confused with the situation, or who have totally missed the drama and avoided the ‘Twitter-less syndrome.”

1. Twitter hacked

Twitter and mowjcamp.org were hacked at about 10pm yesterday. The motive was blatantly conveyed with an Iranian flag and a short message that read:

Iranian Cyber Army

THIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY IRANIAN CYBER ARMY

iRANiAN.CYBER.ARMY@GMAIL.COM

U.S.A. Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access, But THey Don’t, We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power, So Do Not Try To Stimulation Iranian Peoples To….

NOW WHICH COUNTRY IN EMBARGO LIST? IRAN? USA?
WE PUSH THEM IN EMBARGO LIST
Take Care

The Email address provided gave the media access to the hackers, creating a wider reach for their message.

From the NY Times:

…the writing on the image which is not in English includes a line of Arabic script and the words “Ya Hussein” on the green flag, which is a reference to the prophet Muhammad’s grandson, who is revered in Iran. Further down the screen, there is a poem that says, roughly: ‘We will die if our leader orders us to fight, and if he wants, we will be patient and tolerant.’

2. Happy, unhappy Iranians

During the Iran elections, the US government ensured that Twitter was accessible to Iranian protesters; for them to communicate with the rest of the world. This might be great for the protesters but not for the other Iranians who prefer to keep things secret. The attack was likely to be used to warn the US to keep her nose out of the Iranian business.

There are also other speculations to why this happened, including the issue of an oil field dispute with Iraq and Iran’s nuclear program negotiations. We are still waiting for new updates, stay tuned for more details.

Image via TIME

3. Problem fixed. Twitter responded

It’s not the first time we see such a standard response from Twitter, but check out this picture from Twitter’s Platform Lead engineer, Alex Payne. Looks like the guy in the picture has something to say, hasn’t he?

4. Twitter when googled

The image below shows what appeared when Twitter was googled during the compromise. The translation:

“In the name of God, As an Iranian this is a reaction to Twitter’s interference sly which was U.S. authorities ordered in the internal affairs of my country…”

5. A video to sum it up

Special thanks to Michael Arrington, from TechCrunch who was the first to cover the news.