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Anonymous’ Cyber War on Turkey Continues

Anonymous’ Cyber War on Turkey Continues
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The Anonymous hacktivist group took responsibility for a powerful cyber-attack on the Turkish sector of the internet last week. It promised to continue waging cyber warfare on all ".tr" domains until Ankara stops the "insanity" of supporting "ISIS."

Anonymous’ Cyber War on Turkey Continues

Eventually, the massive Distributed Denial of Service [DDoS] attack on Turkish websites last week, initially attributed to spooky "Russian hackers," was clarified as Anonymous issued a video claiming responsibility and declaring cyber war on Turkey for supporting "ISIS" terrorists.

Measured in how much traffic is being sent to a site, the DDoS attack on Turkish DNS servers reached 40 Gbps, quite enough to shut down altogether any domain.

For its part, Turkish media claimed that 400,000 ".tr" domains were forced offline.

However, the affected websites were able to return online only after Turkey's leading National Response Center for Cyber Events cut off all incoming international traffic to the ".tr" websites, thus shutting down national "internet borders" completely and denying "anybody outside the country access to Turkish websites."

The hacktivists claim the attack on Turkey was conducted within the framework of the counterterrorist cyber operation #OpISIS. The basic message behind the attack is that Turkey's woes with the internet are set to repeat unless Ankara revises its policies towards terrorist extremists.

Relatively, in early December, Russia presented proof that Turkey is deeply involved in illegal oil trafficking and trade. However, Ankara consistently denied this, despite the presented video evidence made by Russian drones and warplanes.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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