On Sunday night digital departure boards at Beirut’s airport have been hijacked by hackers who used them to show anti-Iranian and anti-Hezbollah messages.
A bunch calling itself “Lord and the Folks” took credit score for the assault, which displayed messages which translated as:
That is Rafik Hariri Airport, not Hezbollah and Iran Airport.
To Hassan Nasrallah, you’ll not discover a helper if Lebanon is in a conflict and also you bear duty for it and its penalties.
We won’t battle on behalf of anybody. You blew up our port and now you wish to blow up our airport due to the introduction of weapons. Let the airport be free of the grip of the state.
Hassan Nasrallah is the chief of Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Some passengers recorded the bizarre scene on their smartphones, and shared the footage on social media.
قرصنة شاشات صالة #مطار_بيروت وظهر على الشاشات شعار #جنود_الرب مرفق برسالة لـ #حزب_الله pic.twitter.com/X2yhgJiGLR
— Al Jadeed Information (@ALJADEEDNEWS) January 7, 2024
Though flights continued to depart the airport on schedule, there’s little doubt that the hack may have inconvenienced some folks and may have precipitated some concern amongst passengers.
On the identical time, Lebanese travellers reported receiving textual content messages on their cellphones claiming to be from Center East Airways (MEA), and asking them to “adhere to the directions of the safety companies.”
MEA says that though it does contact passengers within the occasion of emergencies by way of electronic mail and textual content message, it was not accountable on this event for the message despatched to travellers’ telephones.
Common readers will do not forget that this isn’t the primary time that hackers have tackled departure boards.
As an illustration, in 2021 hackers hijacked railway station departure boards in Iran, warning of “lengthy delay[s] due to cyberattack”, and suggesting inconvenienced passengers name a specific quantity for extra data.
Who did that quantity belong to? The workplace of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme chief.
