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Faou is scheduled to present his findings at the CYBERWARCON conference in Washington D.C. on Tuesday.Faou said that he contacted some of the websites affected, but did not receive an answer from any of them. None of them are currently compromised, he said, and it’s unclear if that’s because the site owners caught the hackers and removed the malicious code, or the hackers cleaned up after themselves to hide their tracks. When Motherboard reached out to Middle East Eye, Mahmoud Bondok, the site’s head of digital development, said: “We were actually just made aware of it all and trying to ensure that the compromise itself is no longer active as a priority.”On Tuesday, Middle East Eye issued a press release condemning the watering hole attack against its site.“Middle East Eye is no stranger to such attempts to take our website down by state and non state actors. Substantial sums of money have been spent trying to take us out,” Middle East Eye editor in chief David Hearst said in the release. “This has not stopped us reporting what is going on in all corners of the region and I am confident that they will not stop us in future. Despite these efforts, our journalism has reached a global audience.”Do you have more information about this attack? Do you track government hacking groups and APTs? We’d love to hear from you. You can contact Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai securely on Signal at +1 917 257 1382, Wickr/Telegram/Wire @lorenzofb, or email lorenzofb@vice.com
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