The website of Yeshiva World News, the Orthodox Jewish news publication, was hacked on Wednesday, seemingly by Iran.
The website featured for a while the words “Now we are under their control. The Zionists are handcuffed” in Farsi, as well as an image of Ruhollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei looking on at Mojtaba Khamenei (son of Ali Khamenei), surrounded by regime paraphernalia.
By 2 p.m. ET, it appeared to be back up, with the website featuring the message “we will be back shortly.”
The Jerusalem Post checked social media and Telegram channels associated with Iranian hackers but did not immediately find any groups taking responsibility.
A February 28 threat assessment produced by the Office of Intelligence and Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security warned that the main concern was that Iran-aligned “hacktivists” would conduct low-level cyber attacks against US networks, such as website defacements and distributed denial-of-service attacks.
This is a developing story.
