Techworm reported on August 2 that the official website for recruitment of US Marine Corps has been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). On the home page, the hackers posted the message addressed to US marines. The letter urges Marines to abandon their orders and “concentrate on the reason every soldier joins their military, to defend their homeland.” The hackers also insist that “Obama is a traitor who wants to put your lives in danger to rescue Al Qaeda insurgents.” The letter included images of guys in U.S. military uniforms holding up signs saying things like, “I will not fight for Al Qaeda in Syria,” and “I didn’t join the Marine Corps to fight for Al Qaeda in the Syrian civil war.” At the time of writing this article, the US Marine Corps website Marines.com was still showing the deface page.
The Civil war broke out in Syria in 2011. The authorities of the US and other western states announced more than once the intention to employ the military power in relation to the current regime of Syria’s President Bashar Assad. After the US intelligence agency had obtained the information about wielding chemical weapons by Damascus against the local population, US President Barack Obama declared determination to set up the military operation. However, Obama did not exercise the right to adopt a one-man decision about the military strike. The intervention issue is to be submitted to a vote in the Congress in the nearest time.
The Syrian Electronic Army first became known in April 2011. Since then, SEA people carried out a few successful cyber-attacks on such websites as BBC, CNN, The Financial Times, and Human Rights Watch. In August 2013, the organization’s insiders managed to take down The New York Times’ website for several hours. They also hacked into the domain registrar of Twitter social network. The Syrian Electronic Army members term themselves as devotees of Syria’s President Bashar Assad campaign against the foreign military involvement in the civil war on Syria’s area.
