![]() ![]() He told AFP that "the official media is unfortunately weak. In July 2011, it emerged that Bashar al-Assad's page on Facebook page was run by a member of the Syrian Electronic Army close to the regime, Haidara Suleiman, the son of powerful intelligence officer and former Syrian ambassador in Amman, Bahjat Suleiman. One commentator has noted that " volunteers might include Syrian diaspora some of their hacks have used colloquial English and Reddit memes. Īs soon as SEA had removed text that denied it was an official entity. SEA claimed on its webpage to be no official entity, but "a group of enthusiastic Syrian youths who could not stay passive towards the massive distortion of facts about the recent uprising in Syria". Because Syria's domain registration authority registered the hacker site, some security experts have written that the group was supervised by the Syrian state. ![]() On the Syrian Computer Society registered SEA’s website (). In April 2011, only days after anti-regime protests escalated in Syria, Syrian Electronic Army emerged on Facebook. In February 2011, after years of Internet censorship, Syrian censors lifted a ban on Facebook and YouTube. There is evidence that a Syrian Malware Team goes as far back as January 1, 2011. In the 1990s Syrian President Bashar al-Assad headed the Syrian Computer Society, which is connected to the SEA, according to research by University of Toronto and University of Cambridge, UK. ![]() ![]() The precise nature of SEA's relationship with the Syrian government has changed over time and is unclear. 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". It has also hacked government websites in the Middle East and Europe, as well as US defense contractors. Using spamming, website defacement, malware, phishing, and denial-of-service attacks, it has targeted terrorist organizations, political opposition groups, western news outlets, human rights groups and websites that are seemingly neutral to the Syrian conflict. The Syrian Electronic Army ( SEA Arabic: الجيش السوري الإلكتروني) is a group of computer hackers which first surfaced online in 2011 to support the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. ![]()
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