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The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) is a group of computer hackers which first surfaced online in 2011 to support the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Using spamming, website defacement, malware, phishing, and denial of service attacks, it has targeted political opposition groups, western news organizations, human rights groups and websites that are seemingly neutral to the Syrian conflict. It has also hacked government websites in the Middle East and Europe, as well as US defense contractors. the SEA has been "the first Arab country to have a public Internet Army hosted on its national networks to openly launch cyber attacks on its enemies". The precise nature of SEA's relationship with the Syrian government has changed over time and is unclear. ==Origins and historical context== In the 1990s Syrian President Bashar al-Assad headed the Syrian Computer Society, which is connected to the SEA, according to research by University of Toronto and University of Cambridge, UK.〔 There is evidence that a Syrian Malware Team goes as far back as January 1, 2011. In February 2011, after years of internet censorship, Syrian censors lifted a ban on Facebook and YouTube.〔 In April 2011, only days after anti-regime protests escalated in Syria, Syrian Electronic Army emerged on facebook.〔 On May 5, 2011 the Syrian Computer Society registered SEA’s website (syrian-es.com).〔 Because Syria's domain registration authority registered the hacker site, some security experts have written that the group was supervised by the Syrian state.SEA claimed on its webpage to be no official entity, but "a group of enthusiastic Syrian youths who could not stay passive towards the massive distortion of facts about the recent uprising in Syria". As soon as May 27, 2011 SEA had removed text that denied it was an official entity.〔 One commentator has noted that "() volunteers might include Syrian diaspora; some of their hacks have used colloquial English and reddit memes. According to a 2014 report by security company Intelcrawler, SEA activity has shown links with "officials in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and Hezbollah." A February 2015 article by the New York Times stated that "American intelligence officials" suspect the SEA is "actually Iranian". However, no data has shown a link between Iran's and Syria's cyber attack patterns according to an analysis of "open source intelligence" by cyber security firm Recorded Future. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Syrian Electronic Army」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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