Syrian Electronic Army hacker sentenced to 42 months
Original title: Syrian Electronic Army hacker gets prison time for attacks on Western targets
Ahmad Umar Agha, known as Th3Pr0, was jailed Thursday; co-defendant Firas Dardar remains a fugitive.
The Justice Department said Ahmad Umar Agha of the Syrian Electronic Army was sentenced in federal court in Virginia to 42 months for campaigns against nearly 50 Western media outlets, nonprofits and other U.S.-allied entities. Prosecutors said the conspiracy was organized by advisers to former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and collected intelligence for his government. Agha was first charged in 2014, indicted in 2018 and taken into U.S. custody last year; the department has not described the arrest.
Unconfirmed: The Justice Department has not given details of how or where Agha was arrested.
- A 2013 fake AP tweet about an injured President Obama caused a brief $136 billion market dip.
- A 2014 FBI affidavit tied an AP Twitter password-reset email to an address used by Agha.
- He redirected Marine Corps recruiting-site visitors to a message urging them to join the Syrian Army.
- In 2016 the FBI put Agha and Firas Dardar on its Cyber’s Most Wanted list with a $100,000 reward.
- Threat actors
- Syrian Electronic Army
- Victims
- Associated Press
- Organizations
- Justice DepartmentFBIU.S. Marine Corps
- Countries
- SyriaUnited States
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2 min read at therecord.mediaAhmad Umar Agha, known online as “Th3Pr0,” was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Virginia to 42 months behind bars for his role in a conspiracy that was organized by former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's closest advisers.
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