The Syrian Electronic Army hearts larouche.
Curiouser and Curiouser.
There’s an update to this Big Story behind this hack job at CBS News sites.
On Saturday, supporters of conspiracy-loving, eight-time presidential candidate, and U.S. Labor Party inventor Lyndon LaRouche somehow commandeered the Twitter feeds of 60 Minutes and 48 Hours, leaving behind a message reading, “Exclusive: Terror is striking the #USA and #Obama is Shamelessly in Bed with Al-Qaeda,” along with a link to a blog post on LaRouchePAC.com expressing that same idea. No comment from Alex Jones on whether this tactic is more effective than keeping your thoughts to your own Twitter.
Which is…Â your identity of your supporters of “US Labor Party inventor”… The Syrian Electronic Army.
The Syrian Electronic Army, a group of pro-regime hackers, reportedly took over the Twitter account of CBS’ 60 Minutes as well as other CBS brands yesterday, saying the U.S. is ‘in bed’ with terrorists.
This is the second Twitter take-over in the last week for the SEA, which often attacks publications for their coverage of the situation in Syria. The group took responsibility for the hack on its website and in a YouTube video, according to AllThingsD, which shows screenshots of the 60 minutes Twitter as well as new SEA Twitter and Facebook accounts (the social media giants continue to take down SEA accounts.)
The statement on it’s website reads, “The Syrian Electronic Army hacked today several Twitter accounts of CBS-American Network and published thought it the truth.â€
In this weekend’s hack, the SEA tweeted fake headlines that accused the U.S. government of helping terrorists with money and weapons of mass destruction. It then linked to a number of websites. What these websites contained — and whether they were malicious — is unknown, though they reportedly serve malware.
Also worth noting the “CBS News Denver” site… global research dot ca crap.
In the comments sections of the news sites that have picked this story up… we get a lot of jabs and snarks. Also I note that Alex Jones seems to get top billing quite a bit — meaning Lyndon Larouche is now just an Alex Jones underling.
Wait til he starts Instagraming artsy pictures of his lunch.
That guy is still around?
Here I thought Lyndon LaRouche existed solely for two brilliant golden-age The Simpsons jokes. Didn’t know he still had supporters.
Yeah, do not worry – I have never heard of him either
Alex Jones dominates the dicussion section here.
For the most part, after this initial burst, the larouche connection is dropped out of the coverage. We see it in the (Glenn Beck Media) Blaze coverage that reposts the tweet message sans larouche. (And what a loopy amusement the comments section is here.) And after that, It is lost in the ensuing flood of twitter messages.
Following a hack attack, the Associated Press’ verified Twitter account posted “an erroneous tweet” claiming that two explosions occurred in the White House and that President Barack Obama is injured. Moments later, the @AP Twitter account — with nearly 2 million followers — was suspended.
Immediately following the false tweet, the Dow Industrial Average lost about 140 points. These losses were immediately recovered. […]
A wire statement issued later explained that the mid-day tweet “came after hackers made repeated attempts to steal the passwords of AP journalists.” A group called the Syrian Electronic Army claimed credit for the hack. The group’s original Twitter account is currently suspended, but on Tuesday afternoon, an alternate “official” account was live.
Social media accounts associated with CBS News programs “60 Minutes” and “48 Hours” were compromised on Saturday. The same group, known for its pro-Assad politics, took credit for that attack too, as well as earlier attacks on the Twitter accounts of NPR and the BBC. The group is not to be confused with the hacking collective known as Anonymous — in fact, they have previously clashed online.
We’ll just have to watch and see if they post more Larouche created Syrian Government Propaganda in their next Media Hack Attack.
Interestingly this headline, inserted into the hack items:
Tech bloggers posted screenshots of fake posts that appeared under the CBS accounts, including one from @48Hours that read, “General Dempsey calls for #Obama’s arrest under new anti-terror laws #48hours.”
That reminds me of a headline recently seen at the alex jones sites. Â The news sites all say the link directed one to malware infestation. Â A bottom line on this last one:
Apparently hacking obscure, but relevant, social media accounts wasn’t enough for the SEA. Although it’s hard to see how tweeting false claims about explosions at the White House will make anyone more likely to see things their way.
See too lobbing out links to 8 time presidential candidate and conspiracy mongerer…
April 24th, 2013 at 8:53 am
Gawk all you want:
http://gawker.com/5995146/
The LaRouchites are still a thing? Thought they were supplanted by the RON PAUL people
He’s like a senile professor of classics who was laid off after ranting about crows in his underpants, except with a following that isn’t a product of his imagination
It’s only 7:28 here but this is the best thing I have read all day
But they weren’t dumb though; like, they knew to play up these hot button issues at the time of irresponsible bankers and (good to play up in the northeast i guess) economic imperialism. And they were so enthusiastic and passionate too. I wished them good luck, but their group struck me as a bit of a fevered dream, both in the realism of their idea of the problems, and their chances of accomplishing their goals. It’s like those teens who get heavy heavy caught up in evangelical christianity
Well who doesn’t like doing that last thing? That’s just good old fun.
/pencils in Hitler-stache on photo of Julia Gillard
Someone handed me this 60 page booklet of his and I held onto it until it fell apart. It was the funniest shit I’ve ever read in a long time.
The LaRouchites are far more interesting and less tedious than the Ron Paul followers.
Saw a group of them late last year outside a subway station here in Manhattan. A small group — like, three. So they still exist, though just barely.
What strange allies the Larouchies have here.:
http://nesn.com/2013/04/syrian-electronic-army-hacks-sepp-blatters-twitter-account-spreads-bribery-resignation-rumors/
In other Boston news… Occupy … don’t end with a bang, but a whimper of Larouche infestation.
http://occupywallst.org/forum/fbi-role-in-terrorist-bomb-plots/
larouche – always a source of truth and sanity
“It is well documented that an FBI informant participated in the building of the bomb that killed six and injured 1,000 at the World Trade Center”
Documented on lyndon’s used toilet paper?