Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), Deadeye Jackal
Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), Deadeye Jackal is a Syria-attributed nation-state APT group with an espionage motive, tracked by Brandefense. It targets 6 sectors, including Government and Technology, in 4 countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom.
- Syrian Electronic Army
- Syria Malware Team
- Deadeye Jackal
- ATK 196
- TAG-CT2
- Origin
- Syria
- Techniques
- 0
- Exploited CVEs
- No CVE data
- First seen
- Jan 1, 2011
- Record updated
Who They Target.
About Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), Deadeye Jackal.
In April 2011, only days after anti-regime protests escalated in Syria, Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) emerged on Facebook to support the government’s Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. In May 5, 2011 the Syrian Computer Society registered SEA’s website (syrian-es.com). Because Syria's domain registration authority registered the hacker site, some security experts have written that the group was supervised by the Syrian state. SEA claimed on its webpage to be no official entity, but 'a group of enthusiastic Syrian youths who could not stay passive towards the massive distortion of facts about the recent uprising in Syria'. As soon as May 27, 2011 SEA had removed text that denied it was an official entity. On the new page, the description of 'not an official entity' was removed, only says that it was established by a group of young Syrian enthusiasts to combat the use of the Internet, especially people that use of Facebook in Syria to 'spread hatred' and 'destroy peace'.
Last updated Sep 11, 2026. Compiled by Brandefense technologies from structured threat intelligence and reviewed by Brandefense analysts. Techniques follow the MITRE ATT&CK framework.