Communication applications are in the spotlight. After the attack on Tango, a tool for free video calls, yesterday it was the turn of the well-known Viber being attacked by the Syrian Electronic Army A group ofhackers with advanced computer skills who have already been in charge of acgiving access to websites of well-known media outlets and other tools This time they have done it with Viber, whose headquarters are in Israel
Thus, just several hours ago, the Viber support web page changed its appearance to display a screenshot of the information obtained by said group of hackers A list of telephone numbers, country, IP addresses , operating systems of users and other data. Along with it, a message from the Syrian Electronic Army read: Hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army. Dear Viber Users, Israel-based company Viber is spying on and tracking you. We couldn't hack all Viber systems, but most of them have been designed to spy and track Soon after the support page was shut down by Viberpreventing the viewing of this content, although it already circulated freely on the social networks such as Twitter
Thus, Viber had to come out confirming the attack and trying to reassure their users by stating that the group of hackers has not been able to access other systems. Thus, the sensitive information of users remains safe, without leaks or theft of any kind. And it is that said information is guarded with greater zeal in a system that cannot be reached through this kind of attack, according to their own words. Therefore, no alarm should be created.
In addition, Viber has explained to the specialized media 9to5Mac the source of the attack. Apparently, one of your employees has fallen into one of the Syrian Electronic Army's traps, which relies on phishing to get data and information.Thus, by falsifying the appearance of a web page,have managed to make the employee involuntarily give up data that said group has used to carry out the attack.
However, it is not entirely clear how much information and data the Syrian Electronic Army has managed to steal Neither their real intention, as it is a group that supports the government of Bashar al-Assad, but urges Viber users to stop to use this tool as it is used to monitor and record all your activity.
It remains to be seen if this attack really affects Viber users, including more than 200 million people around the world And it is a well-known tool to make free calls over the Internet without any type of restriction or limit, allowing contact from anywhere on the planet with a connection to Internet, either WiFi or data
