Submitted 3 weeks ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://htxt.co.za/2025/06/trump-social-media-site-brought-down-by-iran-hackers/
- 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.
Unclear from the article but, while a bit pedantic, this sounds more like it was potentially a DDoS attack rather than a proper “hack”.
In an age where “willfully giving out your account password” is called hacking, here I’d call it tomato tomato.
here I’d call it tomato or tomato.
It’s pronounced tomato
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?
It feels weird to be in support of the goals of an Iranian hacker group.
Its like watching two shitty people have an argument.
What did Iran do? Seems like all the shitty is on one side.
“Hacker group”.
What a joke. Any kid with a credit card can unleash a ddos attack on a website.
An irrelevant website none the less. If that pile of shit goes down then the entire world benefits.
Not really. Most people around the world are pretty much in the same boat. The “leaders” of governments try to propagandize differences, but everyone is living the same shitty existence. Elites vs poors across the globe. Occasionally you get groups that are extremely radical, but it’s not specific really to any country (We see a lot of out of the ME and Africa mostly due to prolonged Colonial abuse, admittedly.)
And nothing of value was lost.
I’m still at a loss for words thinking that any real human people joined truth social. We really failed as a species…
Equally upsetting. The site is truthsocial.com not truth.social
Someone should buy truth.social and make it redirect to something trump’s base hates.
I’m thinking it might have some comedic value and if you’re trying to beat the stock market…
Fascists arent people. Antifa osint people joined to watch.
DDoS is not hacking
Can be a component of it.
Mailing someone more letters than they’re capable of replying to is not equivalent to, nor a component of, gaining access to the inside of their home.
Define hacking.
I’d start with the following, and refine if necessary:
"Gaining unauthorized access to a protected computer resource by technical means."
* Those first two actually happened in 2001 here in Switzerland when the WEF visitors list was on a database server with default password, they had to let a guy (David S.) go free
** The governor and his idiot troupe eventually stopped their grandstanding and didn’t file charges against Josh Renaud of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter, luckily
The word “hack” is pre-internet. A “hack” journalist or a “hack job” is basically something unprofessional. It is movies that turned “hackers” into someone that gained access to the “mainframe”. In the realm of computer systems, I would argue that a “hack” is doing anything the system was not intended/designed to do. A successful DoS or DDoS needs to find some component of the system that wasn’t designed to handle the amount of traffic about to be sent to it. There are protections for DDoS, you have to figure out a way around them, that’s a hack.
The current tech-related usage was coined at MIT to mean working on a system. Funny that the oldest recorded source comes from MIT model railroad team.
Hacking isn’t hacking it’s usually cracking
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah these are the dicks that cried terrorism when Tesla was “attacked”
His administration says damage to Teslas equates to terrorism. I don’t think it would go how you’re thinking.
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
The bombings are an act of war, so Trump’s already dragged the US into a war with Iran at this point, despite the spin about being “at war with Iran’s nuclear programme but not Iran itself”
I doubt Iran are that worried about the Americans starting a ground invasion either, it would be an absolute bloodbath and will have MAGA and non-MAGA everywhere calling for Trump’s head.
Thankfully only DDos. Truth Social is Mastodon so a security flaw could have been a real problem.
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$$$”
This is the saddest good news I’ve ever read.
Is It Mastodon?! For real? Does it have ActivityPub enabled and all of that?
It is a modified version of Mastodon, with a Soapbox front end. It does not have ActivityPub enabled and lacks a bunch of features.
Never saw security flaw now as a real problem. You just have to live with the fact that there is one. And you will suffer when it’s used. Security flaw later is a real problem.
Iran pls hack Elon Musk’s Twitter account and post “I’m a mean old Nazi who sucks at Path of Exile 2”
Not just Elon’s account, shut the whole site down!
No, post an unhinged rant where he doesn’t say he’s a nazi, but he talks in detail about how he sucks at video games phrased as bragging, then shits on gamers for noticing, and says a buncha shit like the 14 words and junk.
…we need a hack to prove that?
Does that game have swords yet? Last time I played, not all classes were there.
Do twitter next.
Fuck it, take down the entire internet
It’s been tried. A huge percentage of the internet runs on Amazon web services… And a massive ddos attack on that barely bumped it beyond the level of holiday shopping.
To get anywhere on “taking down the internet” they’d probably have to physically take out many sites across the globe.
Lol. Lmao, even
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
We have a president who issues fascistic edicts on the toilet and then phrases them like a Karen in her first term on her HOA or Condo board.
they have to start differentiating a ddos attack from an actual breach
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.
It seems like they just did us all a favor.
Is this how we find out that Truth Social was running even harder on hopes and dreams than 4chan was?
Small fries given the proved concept behind the colonial pipeline hack
A little part of me makes me happy that Truth Social isn’t even recognizable by name. It’s “US President Donald Trump’s social media platform”
Iran is kinda goated for this not gonna lie!
Good, now leak all the spicy dms.
I bet it’s the US.
They’re already starting the 💀Iranian sleeper cell terrorists!!!😱 scaremongering in the press.
These kinds of reports in the media are the first step in a known pattern of priming and nudging to rally up the public for another war.
The best hacking. Everyone knows it. Everyone says it.
I’ll bet Donakd Trump is very upset!
LOL sure, am I supposed to believe a backward country populated by fools, borrowed the washing machine from a country populated by drunks, to access the internet long enough to troll a country run by a buffoon?
Pull the other leg!
Would this count as a retaliation, which Trump warned them against?
Andrew Tated
isitdown reports its been down for over five days, which is quite pleasant.
Lmfao
IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
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pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
source: xkcd.com/932/
(for those that want to read the alt-text)
freeman@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Hacking a Social Media profile --> Tearing down a poster Hacking a Website --> defacing a facade
If the blinds arent closed by or a window is left open by accident, some information could get out. If the doors arent locked, the attacker could get access to further information.
IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
They didn’t hack anything. Just your plain old DDoS attack which took the service offline for a while, nothing was (at least based on what I read) actually hacked (or cracked as old-school foks would like it to be called) or stolen.