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  • Hours after the US airstrike on Iranian territory, Iranian-backed hackers took down US President Donald Trump’s social media platform.
  • Users were struggling to access Truth Social in the early morning following the alleged hack.
  • As the US continues to insert itself into the ongoing Iran-Israel conflict, the US government believes more cyberattacks could happen.
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[–] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 221 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Unclear from the article but, while a bit pedantic, this sounds more like it was potentially a DDoS attack rather than a proper "hack".

[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 129 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

In an age where "willfully giving out your account password" is called hacking, here I'd call it tomato or tomato.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 81 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Social Engineering is hacking cmv.

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

No, because I agree.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There's usually an element of that with cracking passwords. Even if you just try and pick a good wordlist for a target you're already engaging in a way. The more you know about them the shorter the wordlist. And if you spend enough time getting to know shit about them you can reduce the wordlist to one entry because they told you the password. In a way. It's not necessarily a completely different process is my point.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You can argue it's a classic ID-10T error in your workflow.

But nobody has discovered a security vulnerability within the system architecture. This is the system operating as designed, abet with the wrong person standing in front of the terminal.

[–] em2@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's called a PICNIC - Problem In Chair Not In Computer.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago
[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's cracking, not hacking. If you're going to be pedantic, be correct.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

However you want to phrase it, they're very different problems with different solutions.

"Someone picked the lock on my door and got into my house" is meaningfully distinct from "Someone stole my keys".

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago

It was hacking according to Kevin Mitnick (RIP) so, it's probably safe to say that your view doesn't need to be changed.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

here I'd call it tomato or tomato.

It’s pronounced tomato

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

You can keep your nasty chips

[–] PaulBunyan@lemm.ee 25 points 1 month ago

313 Team is an Arabic-interest hacker collective, aligned with Iran, Palestine and Iraq, they reportedly used a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against Truth Social.

The article seems pretty clear to me. Maybe it was updated?

[–] Mearuu@kbin.melroy.org 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

In order to launch a meaningful DDoS there must be thousands of compromised machines to use. I would absolutely say compromising such a large amount of machines is hacking.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A lot of DDOS attacks nowadays are from a DDOS for hire service.

So there could be hacking done, or just a bitcoin transfer.

[–] FrederikNJS@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

These DDOS for hire services make use of hacked machines as botnets to perform the DDOS attacks.

So while the people paying for the service didn't hack anything, the people performing the DDOS certainly did.

[–] Darkard@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or they just found a buffer overflow bug on their border router/firewall. I can't imagine Truth Social has a keen network engineering team keeping up to patching and vulnerabilities.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Doesn’t Truth Social run a super old custom modded version of Lemmy? That thing must have a ton of vulnerabilities.

[–] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

It uses Mastodon (ActivityPub disabled), and Soapbox-FE.

[–] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

It's absolutely hacking those computer, just not the site. I just don't want to get overly excited for something that doesn't have much meat to it.