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The Hack That Exposed Syria’s Sweeping Security Failures

  • Danny Makki--Wired
  • published date: 2026-04-05 09:00:00 UTC

When Syrian government accounts were hijacked in March, the breach looked chaotic. But it revealed something more troubling: a state struggling with the most basic layer of cybersecurity.

When a wave of unusual activity swept through Syrian government accounts on X in March, it first looked like pure chaostrolling, parody names, and even explicit content. But beneath the noise lay som… [+4037 chars]