The Syrian Electronic Army hacker group is known for its Spear Phishing attacks, carried out with malicious emails. Today, the
SEA group managed to modify the DNS records of the domains ebay.co.uk and paypal.co.uk and deface their websites.
"Paypal is hacked by SEA because they don't allow Syrian citizens to buy products online," the group said in a tweet.
The group stated that it is purely a hacktivist act and not to compromise user accounts or data.
Immediately afterwards, the team hacked the email account of Paul Whitted, Director of the Site Engineering Center at eBay, and published screenshots of internal communications.
It should be emphasized that the violations do not pose any risk to users of the services, as they were made by modifying the DNS of the domains.
