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Cyber ​​attacks by hackers working for the Turkish system

2020-01-27T15:04:44.535Z


LONDON - SANA - High-ranking security officials from Britain and the United States have revealed that cyber hackers are working


London-Sana

High-ranking security officials from Britain and the United States revealed that electronic pirates working for the Turkish regime have carried out a campaign of attacks and electronic piracy on government sites and organizations in Europe and the Middle East.

"These piracy activities bear the hallmarks of a large (state-spied electronic spy) and were conducted to advance Turkish interests," Reuters quoted officials, US and British, as saying.

The officials who requested anonymity said that their conclusion was based on three elements, the first of which are the identities and locations of the victims of espionage operations, including the governments of countries that have geopolitical importance for Turkey such as Cyprus, Greece and Iraq, and the second is similarities with previous attacks that used registered infrastructure from Turkey and the third information contained in assessments Secret intelligence cannot be revealed.

Although officials have not been able to clearly identify the individuals or organizations responsible, they believe that the mentioned waves of cyber attacks are related to each other because attacking hackers used the same infrastructure servers.

According to the report prepared by Reuters, based on a review of public Internet records, the pirates attacked at least thirty organizations, including government ministries, embassies and security services, in addition to other companies and groups, including the Greek and Greek e-mail services, where the attacks include interception of Internet traffic to the sites of the targeted, what can the pirates From illegal access to networks of government agencies and other organizations.

According to the Reuters report, the cyber attacks targeting Iraq, Cyprus and Greece were recorded in late 2018 or early 2019, and according to officials and investigators specializing in cyber security, the hackers used "DNS" technology for piracy, which includes tampering with the Internet's effective address book, enabling computers to match URLs The web with the correct web server.

It is worth noting that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has a long history of espionage and persecution of opponents of his policies, both inside and outside Turkey, not only at the level of individuals but also at the level of institutions and organizations, and this was confirmed by an official document revealed by the Swedish Nordic Monitor specializing in military affairs. And security last year and showed that Turkish embassies and officials in consulates of the Turkish regime spied on Erdogan's critics in foreign countries as part of high-level espionage activities aimed at expanding the latter's systematic and illegal campaign to impose his dominance and hegemony and achieve his interests Personality and greed.

Source: sena

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