Syrian Electronic Army hacks Hostgator, FastDomain and more for hosting terrorist sites

It has been a little while since we heard anything from the Syrian Electronic Army, but now the group has made an appearance once again. SEA has hacked five big-name hosting companies -- Bluehost, Justhost, Hostgator, Hostmonster and FastDomain -- all part of the Endurance International Group.

SEA launched the attacks on the five hosts for "hosting terrorists websites" (sic) adding to the list of high-profile names it has already targeted -- a list that includes names such as Skype, Facebook, PayPal, Twitter and Microsoft. No sites were mentioned by name for having gained SEA's attention.

At the moment, it is not clear whether any particular demands have been made of the websites in question. The group took to Twitter to boast of the attacks, posting screenshots of the sites it had managed to commandeer. Bluehost was singled out for particular attention, with a tweet warning: "Next time... we will change the DNS".

The Hacker News reports that SEA took control of Bluebox's Twitter account and used it to post tweets, but these have now been removed. The Syrian Electronic Army supports the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and is well-known for attacking Western websites. For now, it appears that the attacks have come to an end, but there's nothing to say something similar won’t happen again soon.

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