Hackers vandalize a comparatively small U.S. governance website on Sunday , leaving behind a message for President Donald Trump and incriminate that the governance of Iran was behind the hack . But there ’s no evidence yet that Iran was in reality behind the trespass , according to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ( CISA ) , a division of the Department of Homeland Security .
hacker defaced theFederal Depository Library Program(FDLP ) internet site , a hub for governing documents , with an instance of President Trump getting punch in the fount and leech from his sassing . The vandalize website was archived by the net Archive’sWayback Machine , which fawn the internet sporadically to preserve public websites .
The vandals replaced the landing varlet of the U.S. government site with pro - Iran and pro - Palestine messages , and called the recently assassinate Qassem Soleimani a martyr for Iran . What appeared to be Iranian missiles were also photoshopped into the graphic .
Screenshot: (FDLP/Wayback Machine)
The U.S. government is on mellow alert in the wake of the assassination of Qassem Soleimani , an Iranian general with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who was reverence inside the country . Soleimani was reportedly pop by a U.S. droning at the direct order of President Trump , a man who spend the weekend promising to do warfare crime if Iran strikes back against the U.S. Specifically , Trump promised to target Persian cultural sites , something that ’s forbidden under international practice of law .
The schoolbook on the hacked page say that “ severe revenge look those felon who have defile their filthy hand with [ Soleimani ’s ] descent . ”
Other parts of the hacked page contained broken English , like the phrase , “ We ’re always ready , to be continues … ”
Screenshot: (FDLP/Wayback Machine)
“ We are mindful the website of the Federal Depository Library Program ( FDLP ) was defaced with pro - Iranian , anti - US messaging , ” a spokesperson for CISA tell Gizmodo via email .
The website does appear to be back up and operating as usual , as of early Monday morning .
Trump also spent the weekend claiming that he does n’t need to get commendation from Congress to start a full - scurf shot war with Iran , insist that histweet on Sundaywas his notification of Congress .
Screenshot: (FDLP/Wayback Machine)
These Media Posts will do as telling to the United States Congress that should Iran hit any U.S. person or quarry , the United States will quickly & fully move back , & perhaps in a disproportionate manner . Such sound notice is not take , but is pay nevertheless !
— Donald J. Trump ( @realDonaldTrump)January 5 , 2020
And all of this is making Americans decidedly less safe . The CISA emerge a bulletin onJanuary 4 , warning that while there was no “ specific ” scourge against the U.S , Americans should remain vigilant .
“ As described in the late NTAS bulletin , in these times of increased threats , all brass should increase monitoring , back up your systems , put through multi agent authentication , and have an incident response design at the quick , ” a CISA spokesperson told Gizmodo . “ For more information on the cyber threat landscape and prevention and preparation tips , please see CISA.gov . ”
Leaders in Iran have vowed revenge and today get word massive gang for the state funeral of Soleimani . But at this decimal point there ’s not much the ordinary American can do but sit by and wait for whatever fall .
The good we can hope for is that whatever happens , President Trump does n’t overreact and start World War III . Let ’s just say we ’re not holding our breath .
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