A mysterious group of hackers have launched a plan to reveal the state secrets of Saudi Arabia. It is called the "Yemen Cyber Army" or "Yemen Cyber Army", but according to Buzzfeed network, it is not known whether it is country-specific.
At this time, security experts are trying to find out what people are behind this Yemen Cyber Army, and what is their ultimate goal.
It all started on April 14, when the website of Al Hayat newspaper was taken over by people who posted threats in order to prevent Saudi Arabia from intervening in the internal conflicts in Yemen. Shortly afterwards, a group of self-proclaimed "Yemen Cyber Army" took over and soon launched a social media campaign with the hashtag #OpSaudi.
On 20 May Saudi Arabian Foreign Ministry received a cyber attack and the following day the Iranian FARS news site published an article in which the mysterious Yemen Cyber Army warned that he would soon disclose personal information and information to Saudi Arabian Federal officials and diplomats. Soon, such information was released on the page Pastebin.com.
About a month after this incident, Wikileaks announced that this particular hacker group was responsible for the interception of this data, which even proved the subsidy of Islamist groups in Saudi Arabia. From that day on, the cyber-army remains silent, refusing to answer questions from journalists who tried to reach out to members.
Boaz Dolev, director of Israeli companyς ασφαλείας στο διαδίκτυο, Clearsky, argues that the group is based in Iran.
"Anyone who believes that a group of hackers from Yemen managed to get into the system of Saudi Arabia is delusional or doesn't understand anything about the world of hacking today," Dolev explained, adding that it would be easier for Iran to shift the blame to another country.
As he told the Buzzfeed network, the program used against 550 targets, half of which were in Saudi Arabia, was aimed at espionage and under no circumstances the so-called "hacktivism" (activism through cyber attack). Also, many IP addresses were traced to Iran.
At this point it should be mentioned that Twitter accounts expressing their support for the Yemen Cyber Army in 2014, claim that the Iranian government has taken control of their movement.
Still, there are not many times when the hacker team used Anonymous phrases, either to show its unity with the particular activist organization or to mislead about its real purposes.
