Iranian hacktivists hit Twitter site
- Friday, December 18, 2009, 8:25
- Articles, Threat Research
Twitter was disrupted Thursday night by attackers who hacked Twitter’s domain name servers and rerouted Twitter traffic as well as posting their own banner on the micro-blogging services page. The service returned to normal by Friday morning.Technology blog Mashable, attributed the attack to a group claiming to be the “Iranian Cyber Army.” Judging by the graphic they left, it appeared to be a hacktivist attack.Story here. Twitter blog.Defacement graphic here.Tom Kelchner