Syrian Electronic Army has hacked into Outbrain service and take control of admin panel. The security breach affects CNN, Washington Post, Time and more high profile websites.
Outbrain is a content recommendation service whose widget offers to help internet publishers increase web traffic at their websites. It does so by presenting them with links to articles and other content.
Speaking to E Hacking News, hacker said that the admin panel of Outbrain is hosted in the local server. However, they managed to login into the panel with the help of VPN and access panel.
The group also told EHN that they have compromised emails of Outbrain. At the time of writing, the website is back to normal.
" Reading @wapo article & redirected to website of Syrian Electronic Army--twice. A nice hack, but now I'm probably on a watch-list." Nathan K. Hensley posted in his tweet.
The hackers also provided us exclusive screenshots of the admin panel of outbrain :
Outbrain is a content recommendation service whose widget offers to help internet publishers increase web traffic at their websites. It does so by presenting them with links to articles and other content.
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| CNN outbrain hacked |
Speaking to E Hacking News, hacker said that the admin panel of Outbrain is hosted in the local server. However, they managed to login into the panel with the help of VPN and access panel.
The group also told EHN that they have compromised emails of Outbrain. At the time of writing, the website is back to normal.
" Reading @wapo article & redirected to website of Syrian Electronic Army--twice. A nice hack, but now I'm probably on a watch-list." Nathan K. Hensley posted in his tweet.
The hackers also provided us exclusive screenshots of the admin panel of outbrain :
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| CNN Affected |
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| Time website affected |
