A group of Iranian hackers going by the online handle of “Iran Cyber Security Group Hackers” has hacked and defaced the official website of the US Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) and replaced its homepage with one of their own.
The incident took place on January 4th however on the same day, another group of Iranian hackers calling themselves “Shield Iran” targeted Sierra Leone Commerical Bank (slcb.com) and defaced its homepage with a picture of Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian major general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who was killed in a targeted U.S. drone strike on 3rd January 2020 in Baghdad, Iraq.
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Screenshot of the hacked SLCB website.
Furthermore, due to defacement, both websites were forced to display messages in support of the Iranian and against the US government. One of the illustrations on the hacked FDLP displayed US President Donald Trump being punched.
The deface message also vowed to carry on supporting oppressed people of the region.
“We will not stop supporting our friends in the region; the oppressed people of Palestine, the oppressed people of Yemen, the people and the Syrian government, the people and government o ..
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