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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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[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 290 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 47 points 1 week ago

I mean it does depend on the extent of the hack. But usually taking down the website, they don't take the databases or anything

[–] cole@lemdro.id 27 points 1 week ago

source: https://xkcd.com/932/

(for those that want to read the alt-text)

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[–] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 221 points 1 week ago (9 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 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

here I'd call it tomato or tomato.

It’s pronounced tomato

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[–] PaulBunyan@lemm.ee 25 points 1 week 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?

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[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 128 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And nothing of value was lost.

[–] ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 66 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Less AI generated garbage.

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[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 125 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It feels weird to be in support of the goals of an Iranian hacker group.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago (32 children)

Its like watching two shitty people have an argument.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (15 children)

The only problem is that felon 47 isn't going to fight. Innocent americans are going to get killed and that disgusting psychopath is going to spit on their graves.

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[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 112 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm still at a loss for words thinking that any real human people joined truth social. We really failed as a species...

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Equally upsetting. The site is truthsocial.com not truth.social

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Someone should buy truth.social and make it redirect to something trump's base hates.

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 98 points 1 week ago (20 children)
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[–] blattrules@lemmy.world 97 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Might be smart for Iran to just attack trump’s businesses as retribution for the bombings; if they attack the military, we’ll surely get pulled into another war, but just going after trump’s businesses will probably avoid a military response and maybe will make republicans come around to the fact that he should have divested himself from his businesses when he became president.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

going after trump’s businesses will probably avoid a military response

More likely, it makes the poor baby (-hands) cry and throw a tantrum. Being the malignant narcissist he is, he thinks the resources of the United States government are entirely at his disposal. With that in mind, he's absolutely going to demand a military response to any attacks on his businesses.

Whether saner heads prevail, all we can do is hope.

[–] blattrules@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

Yeah agreed, he’s absolutely going to demand a military response to any attacks on his business, but maybe that’s enough to divide the republicans in congress and they’ll start to rein him in. Still going to take a lot for them to develop the balls to stand up to him, but might be good for us if Iran just goes after his businesses.

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[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 33 points 1 week ago

His administration says damage to Teslas equates to terrorism. I don’t think it would go how you’re thinking.

[–] colonelsharki@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

With any other president I’d agree but this is Trump. A venal and petty man who wouldn’t think twice before using the country’s soldiers and even nuclear weapons to defend his sense of pride

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[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 68 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Thankfully only DDos. Truth Social is Mastodon so a security flaw could have been a real problem.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago

nah it's a lazy fork so seeing how he chooses people (they're either cheap or friends of friends or both) "truth" can easily have a totally new security issue

maybe the server has a root password that's "trump454748$$$"

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is It Mastodon?! For real? Does it have ActivityPub enabled and all of that?

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 59 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

It is a modified version of Mastodon, with a Soapbox front end. It does not have ActivityPub enabled and lacks a bunch of features.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Social#Software

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 59 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Mastodon developers then formally requested that Truth Social comply with the terms of the software license,[75] with Truth Social publishing its source code as a ZIP file on the website on November 12, 2021.

Lol they actually complied with the license in the end, i didnt know that.

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[–] Nelots@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 week ago

This is the saddest good news I've ever read.

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago (11 children)
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[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 54 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Iran pls hack Elon Musk's Twitter account and post "I'm a mean old Nazi who sucks ass at Path of Exile 2"

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[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago

Lol. Lmao, even

[–] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We have a president who issues fascistic edicts from the toilet and then phrases them like a Karen in her first term on her HOA or Condo board.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

they have to start differentiating a ddos attack from an actual breach. one is far more interesting than the other

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 20 points 1 week ago

I work in tech and I hate it when non-security people talk about it.

It's really painful to read about "a new hack that can affect billions of accounts" from a source, only to learn its some new social phishing method.

[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It seems like they just did us all a favor.

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[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Small fries given the proved concept behind the colonial pipeline hack

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 23 points 1 week ago

Is this how we find out that Truth Social was running even harder on hopes and dreams than 4chan was?

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