- Hours after the US airstrike on Iranian territory, Iranian-backed hackers took down US President Donald Trump’s social media platform.
- Users were struggling to access Truth Social in the early morning following the alleged hack.
- As the US continues to insert itself into the ongoing Iran-Israel conflict, the US government believes more cyberattacks could happen.
And nothing of value was lost.
Value gained, actually.
Less AI generated garbage.
Things of negative value were lost :D
Unclear from the article but, while a bit pedantic, this sounds more like it was potentially a DDoS attack rather than a proper “hack”.
In an age where “willfully giving out your account password” is called hacking, here I’d call it tomato or tomato.
here I’d call it tomato or tomato.
It’s pronounced tomato
Potato potato
You can keep your nasty chips
Social Engineering is hacking cmv.
You can argue it’s a classic ID-10T error in your workflow.
But nobody has discovered a security vulnerability within the system architecture. This is the system operating as designed, abet with the wrong person standing in front of the terminal.
That’s cracking, not hacking. If you’re going to be pedantic, be correct.
That’s called a PICNIC - Problem In Chair Not In Computer.
PEBKAC
No, because I agree.
There’s usually an element of that with cracking passwords. Even if you just try and pick a good wordlist for a target you’re already engaging in a way. The more you know about them the shorter the wordlist. And if you spend enough time getting to know shit about them you can reduce the wordlist to one entry because they told you the password. In a way. It’s not necessarily a completely different process is my point.
313 Team is an Arabic-interest hacker collective, aligned with Iran, Palestine and Iraq, they reportedly used a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against Truth Social.
The article seems pretty clear to me. Maybe it was updated?
In order to launch a meaningful DDoS there must be thousands of compromised machines to use. I would absolutely say compromising such a large amount of machines is hacking.
A lot of DDOS attacks nowadays are from a DDOS for hire service.
So there could be hacking done, or just a bitcoin transfer.
These DDOS for hire services make use of hacked machines as botnets to perform the DDOS attacks.
So while the people paying for the service didn’t hack anything, the people performing the DDOS certainly did.
It’s absolutely hacking those computer, just not the site. I just don’t want to get overly excited for something that doesn’t have much meat to it.
Or they just found a buffer overflow bug on their border router/firewall. I can’t imagine Truth Social has a keen network engineering team keeping up to patching and vulnerabilities.
Doesn’t Truth Social run a super old custom modded version of Lemmy? That thing must have a ton of vulnerabilities.
It uses Mastodon (ActivityPub disabled), and Soapbox-FE.
It seems like they just did us all a favor.
May just be the only thing that saves this country. Fewer people on social media is good for society at this point.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
We have a president who issues fascistic edicts from the toilet and then phrases them like a Karen in her first term on her HOA or Condo board.
A little part of me makes me happy that Truth Social isn’t even recognizable by name. It’s “US President Donald Trump’s social media platform”
I’m happy that the news over here has to continually specify “the messaging service X”. Though I wish they would avoid potential confusion and also say “formerly known as Twitter”.
“the messaging service X”
Yes but which messaging service?
I’ll bet Donakd Trump is very upset!
Good, now leak all the spicy dms.
Might be smart for Iran to just attack trump’s businesses as retribution for the bombings; if they attack the military, we’ll surely get pulled into another war, but just going after trump’s businesses will probably avoid a military response and maybe will make republicans come around to the fact that he should have divested himself from his businesses when he became president.
going after trump’s businesses will probably avoid a military response
More likely, it makes the poor baby (-hands) cry and throw a tantrum. Being the malignant narcissist he is, he thinks the resources of the United States government are entirely at his disposal. With that in mind, he’s absolutely going to demand a military response to any attacks on his businesses.
Whether saner heads prevail, all we can do is hope.
Yeah agreed, he’s absolutely going to demand a military response to any attacks on his business, but maybe that’s enough to divide the republicans in congress and they’ll start to rein him in. Still going to take a lot for them to develop the balls to stand up to him, but might be good for us if Iran just goes after his businesses.
Yeah these are the dicks that cried terrorism when Tesla was “attacked”
The bombings are an act of war, so Trump’s already dragged the US into a war with Iran at this point, despite the spin about being “at war with Iran’s nuclear programme but not Iran itself”
I doubt Iran are that worried about the Americans starting a ground invasion either, it would be an absolute bloodbath and will have MAGA and non-MAGA everywhere calling for Trump’s head.
With any other president I’d agree but this is Trump. A venal and petty man who wouldn’t think twice before using the country’s soldiers and even nuclear weapons to defend his sense of pride
His administration says damage to Teslas equates to terrorism. I don’t think it would go how you’re thinking.
Would this count as a retaliation, which Trump warned them against?
isitdown reports its been down for over five days, which is quite pleasant.
Andrew Tated
Andrew Tate’s site was based on some OSS software that they didn’t credit (in violation of the license) and was an old version with known vulnerabilities. Which is why it got hacked.
I don’t know if Truth Social is in the same boat, but it’s possible. I think I heard it’s just Mastodon with federation turned off? Or am I thinking of some other crappy alt-right site?
It certainly had some Mastodon code but I think they sent them a C&D and they removed the it.
It feels weird to be in support of the goals of an Iranian hacker group.
Not really. Most people around the world are pretty much in the same boat. The “leaders” of governments try to propagandize differences, but everyone is living the same shitty existence. Elites vs poors across the globe. Occasionally you get groups that are extremely radical, but it’s not specific really to any country (We see a lot of out of the ME and Africa mostly due to prolonged Colonial abuse, admittedly.)
Its like watching two shitty people have an argument.
What did Iran do? Seems like all the shitty is on one side.
Iran is known for its barbaric treatment of women who refuse the forced muslim dress code. They are a equally corrupt government. No good people involved at the upper levels. SSDD.
SSDD? Same shit, different dictator - I like it
Solid-State Disk Drive, it’s a regular hard drive with the platters hot-glued to stay still
That’s right. The platters are heavy, and the reader head is light, so we just whip the reader head around at 7200rpm
Yeah good thing the US respects women’s autonomy and isn’t being strangled by a fundamentalist religious movement that wants to force women to be nothing more than incubators, maids, and fuck toys…😒
Most of us do respect womens autonomy. I know I taught my daughter that. The loud mouth weaklings don’t. They hate that women don’t have to spread on command.
I couldnt give a single flying fuck if “most of you” are such good people that you’d willingly live in a militant feminist matriarchy; the fact is our enemy is not Iran or it’s people and you’re here patting yourself on the ass for having the literal minimum level of decency expected of a father
Both of you are right but there’s definitely levels to how much worse it is in Iran
Different doesn’t necessarily equate to worse. The IR does oppress women, without a doubt; but American society exploits young women’s sexuality for financial gain, psychologically manipulates them into prohibitive gender norms that are impossible to achieve without vast amounts of wealth and privilege, and then tells them the most important thing they can aspire to be is mother to a man’s offspring.
In short, you, your society, and your government are not as different-and clearly not any better-from any other in the world.
A lot of this comment hinges on your belief that US women are not intelligent enough to to understand that exploitation and manipulation. Knowledge has progressed a lot in the last 20 years. Look at the under 18 and 20-24 age groups
There are much better examples of the subjugation of women in the US right now than to pin the societal oppression on US’ fostering of an anti intellectual society.
or Alabama
Iran has more FEMALE engineers than the US and less of it’s population in jail.
Iran’s healthcare has been rated excellent by UNICEF.
I could continue, but facts can’t win from the propaganda machine online.
So I’m just gonna laugh make fun of it.Wait fr?
The freedom of both women and the general public is not solely dictated by healthcare and the ability to attain higher education.
Does a free society cut off country wide access to the external internet?
Iran is actively lying to its citizens saying they destroyed the US base in Qatar and there was minimal damage to Iranian nuclear facilities. Both outright lies. This is not a free golden society.
How many women are persecuted from laws around the head dressing and other clothing related issues.
Boiling womens rights down to they can become an engineer and have good healthcare is laughably pathetic and on the verge of being a conservative talking point I would hear on fox news in justification for stripping away more rights. Pinning the struggle of US women against Iranian women is an incredibly pathetic mindset that only fosters negativity.
While there are religious extremists in Iran, their level of influence on Iranian culture is not anywhere near what you’re saying. You’re just repeating western propaganda.
They did have a controversial new dress code law that was supposed to go into effect at the end of last year, but it was blocked for being to extreme and vague.
However, my state just forced a brain dead woman to incubate a baby against the family’s will. So I’m inclined to agree with those saying the religious extremists exercise greater control in the US than Iran, and by your standards that means they should bomb us. Because I guess you think killing people is equal to freeing them.
You are stretching that one out. I don’t support Israel any more than I support Iran. They are both trash.
You’re repeating Israeli lies. So you’re either surreptitiously supporting Israel, or you’re serving as a useful idiot.
So those women were not arrested and beaten for refusing to wear the headress?
Yeah the US/hasbara propaganda tools are out in full force.
Sure this cunt is one of them
So if the US killed those women, problem solved? I don’t get your logic.
It would get even worse if the regime fall. Just look at iraq, afghanistan, libya, syria
LOL
The literal hasbara operative excuse to excuse them for genociding those misanthrophic barbarian Palestinians.
Really, you’re all so boring and unimaginative.
Must be tiring defending the many many warcrimes from USSA/pissrahell.
Glad you’re getting youe ass kicked and turning into Gaza yourself, it warms my heart.
“let them fight.”
The only problem is that felon 47 isn’t going to fight. Innocent americans are going to get killed and that disgusting psychopath is going to spit on their graves.
He would have to even think about them to do that. I doubt the ground level costs of his actions and choices ever enter his mind in any real way.
Oh he thinks of them. He thinks of them as trash.
Problem?
How many innocent lives have been lost to US military action though out the world?
Collateral damage.
Innocent Americans don’t wear the US fascist army uniform.
I will spit on their grave.Solet the downvoting, bootlicking and whitewashing begin.
You’ll have to be creative, not this tired garbage:
So the entirety of all branches are all responsible equally. Got it
“I didn’t personally bomb weddings or hospitals, I only made a cog for the missile” doesn’t excuse them.
So yes, they can all go to hellIts a pretty childish take. Somehow my statement just wasn’t good enough. Not enough black and white. Too much grey.
Yeah it will indiscriminately hurt Iranians and Americans and not our rulers. We were both already suffering under our leaders before the American government decided to go to war with Iran.
I may need to go reread Jingo…
What innocent Americans are you talking about? If trade ships are attacked, maybe. If it’s military personnel, none of them are innocent as they are still “following orders”.
So everyone of us is guilty. Fuck you!
Don’t know why do you say “everyone”, I certainly didn’t say that. But if you are in the military of a country that is invading other country and continue to be in the military then you are definitely not innocent(though transferring to a different location might be a compromise).
Tankie fucktoid alert
They could revolt
“Hacker group”.
What a joke. Any kid with a credit card can unleash a ddos attack on a website.
An irrelevant website none the less. If that pile of shit goes down then the entire world benefits.
I mean it does depend on the extent of the hack. But usually taking down the website, they don’t take the databases or anything
source: https://xkcd.com/932/
(for those that want to read the alt-text)
Hacking a Social Media profile --> Tearing down a poster
Hacking a Website --> defacing a facade
If the blinds arent closed by or a window is left open by accident, some information could get out. If the doors arent locked, the attacker could get access to further information.
They didn’t hack anything. Just your plain old DDoS attack which took the service offline for a while, nothing was (at least based on what I read) actually hacked (or cracked as old-school folks like me would like it to be called) or stolen.
they have to start differentiating a ddos attack from an actual breach. one is far more interesting than the other
I work in tech and I hate it when non-security people talk about it.
It’s really painful to read about “a new hack that can affect billions of accounts” from a source, only to learn its some new social phishing method.
Iran is kinda goated for this not gonna lie!
