Iranian protest-rapper's site attacked - April 2010

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DATE:
2010-04

AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
Iran

AFFECTED SITES:
sharrmusic.org

EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
Crashed, defaced

SOURCE COUNTRY:
Iran

ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
"the cyber army"

TYPE OF ATTACK:
n/a

ATTACK SPECIFICS:
n/a

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
"Site of Iranian rapper-protester Shahin Najafi taken down. ""In April, a shadowy pro-government group that calls itself 'the cyber army' shut down Mr. Najafi's Web site. The group, which hacked Iranian Twitter in December, left a message saying the site had been 'conquered by anonymous soldiers of Imam Zaman,' a reference to the Shiite messiah"" (1)."

URLS:
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/world/middleeast/06iranmusic.html

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