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.
In this period, experts in issues security forces are trying to identify who are behind this group (Yemen Cyber Army) and what is their ultimate goal.
It all started on April 14, when the webσελίδα της εφημερίδας Al Hayat καταλήφθηκε από άτομα που αναρτούσαν απειλές προκειμένου να αποτρέψουν την Σαουδική Αραβία από το να επέμβει στις εσωτερικές συγκρούσεις στην Υεμένη. Λίγο καιρό μετά, μια ομάδα ατόμων που αυτοαποκαλούνταν “Yemen Cyber Army” ανέλαβαν την ευθύνη και σύντομα ξεκίνησαν μια καμπάνια στα Social Networks 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 group Yemen Cyber Army warned that it would soon reveal personally data and information of Saudi federal officials and diplomats. Soon, such information was circulated 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 the Israeli Internet Security Company, Clearsky, argues that the group is based in Iran.
"Anyone who believes a Yankee hacker team has managed to get into the Saudi system has hallucinations or does not understand anything about the world of hacking today," Dolev explained, adding that for Iran it would be easier to drop the blame another country.
According to Buzzfeed, the program, which was used against 550 targets, half of which were in Saudi Arabia, was aimed at espionage and in no way at the so-called "hacktivism" (cyber-activism). Also, many IP addresses were detected in 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 a few times that the group of hackers used phrases of Anonymous, either to show its unity with the particular activist organization, or to mislead about its true aims.
