Syrian hackers target Russian embassy website

New Delhi - Syrian cyber-guerrillas had hacked into the Russian embassy website in India to protest against Moscow's policy in the violence-hit country, but the portal has been restored, an embassy official said Tuesday.

In a late Sunday night hacking attack, Syrian activists implanted the websites of the Russian embassies in India and Singapore with videograbs of young children killed in an alleged massacre in that country last week.

However, the cyber attack was successfully repulsed, and now the website is fully functional, the embassy's senior counsellor Sergey Karmalito said in a statement.

"It was claimed that the work of these websites was paralysed - hackers posted photos of killed young children and an appeal to Russian authorities to cut off arms supplies to Bashar al Assad regime,” said Karmalito.

"In spite of such allegations, obviously based on the information passed to the media by cyber-pirates themselves, there was no such information on the website of the Russian embassy in India,” added Karmalito.

Even as the US is pushing for the ouster of the Bashar al Assad regime in Syria, Russia has mounted a stiff resistance and argued that Washington, when dealing with other countries, must respect the principle of sovereignty.