{"id":286423,"date":"2026-07-06T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/us-army-websites-defaced-with-pro-kurdish-sentiments-insults-to-trump\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T14:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:55:11","slug":"us-army-websites-defaced-with-pro-kurdish-sentiments-insults-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/us-army-websites-defaced-with-pro-kurdish-sentiments-insults-to-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"US Army websites defaced with pro-Kurdish sentiments, insults to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

US Army websites defaced with pro-Kurdish sentiments, insults to Trump<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/us-army-websites-defaced-404-hijacking-kurdistan\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-07-06 13:54:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: cyberscoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n

By Derek B. Johnson<\/p>\n

Multiple U.S. Army internet subdomains were defaced in a 404 hijacking campaign, CyberScoop has confirmed.<\/p>\n

As of Monday morning, error pages on two U.S. Army websites \u2013 oil.army.mil and ai2c.army.mil \u2013 displayed defacement messages visible to users. The messages denigrated\u00a0President Donald Trump and United States Ambassador to T\u00fcrkiye Tom Barrack, called to \u201cFREE KURDISTAN,\u201d\u00a0 And included another line reading \u201cKurdish sr was here.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the websites, oil.army.mil, belongs to the Army\u2019s Open Innovation Lab, a test bed for software and cyber capabilities established in 2020. The other belongs to the Artificial Intelligence Integration Center, established in 2019 to integrate AI technologies into the Army and train personnel on emerging technologies.<\/p>\n

Screenshot of 404 error pages for oil.army.mil, defaced with pro-Kurdistan comments and insults to President Donald Trump and White House advisor Tom Barrack. (Source: U.S. Army website)<\/p>\n

\"\"Screenshot of 404 error pages for ai2c.army.mil, defaced with insults to President Donald Trump and White House advisor Tom Barrack and a sign off from \u201cKurdish sr.\u201d (Source: U.S. Army website)<\/p>\n

The defacements were initially discovered by independent cybersecurity researcher Ronald Lovelace, who notified U.S. Army officials and CyberScoop.<\/p>\n

404 hijacking exploits a website\u2019s error-handling system \u2014 often by compromising a plugin, content management system, or server configuration \u2014 to control what content gets displayed when a page isn\u2019t found, rather than breaching the site\u2019s core pages directly. This lets malicious users insert defacement messages, malicious redirects, or other unauthorized content that visitors see specifically on error pages, sometimes making the compromise harder to detect since the rest of the site appears untouched.<\/p>\n

Lovelace said the affected sites run on WordPress and Microsoft cloud infrastructure. It\u2019s not clear how long the…<\/p>\n

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