{"id":78883,"date":"2015-12-24T23:38:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T22:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/?p=78883"},"modified":"2015-12-24T23:38:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T22:38:52","slug":"anonymous-declares-war-on-turkey-claims-responsibility-for-recent-massive-cyberattacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2015\/12\/24\/anonymous-declares-war-on-turkey-claims-responsibility-for-recent-massive-cyberattacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous &#8216;declares war&#8217; on Turkey, claims responsibility for recent massive cyberattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intro\">Anonymous threatened to attack the digital infrastructure of Turkey&#8217;s banks, airports and <span id=\"itxthook0p\" class=\"itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap\"><span id=\"itxthook0w\" class=\"itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan\">government<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"itxthook0icon\" class=\"itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon\" src=\"http:\/\/images.intellitxt.com\/ast\/adTypes\/icon1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<ul class=\"caption meta inline-pipes-list\">\n<ul class=\"caption meta inline-pipes-list\">\n<ul class=\"caption meta inline-pipes-list\">\n<li class=\"author\">Doug Bolton<\/li>\n<li>@DougieBolton<\/li>\n<li title=\"23 December 2015 15:06 London\"><time datetime=\"15:06, 23 December 2015\" data-microtimes=\"{&quot;published&quot;:&quot;1450865760000&quot;,&quot;display&quot;:0,&quot;changed&quot;:&quot;1450883174000&quot;}\">Wednesday 23 December 2015<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/s3fs-public\/styles\/story_large\/public\/thumbnails\/image\/2015\/12\/23\/10\/anonturkey.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing an Anonymous-style Guy Fawkes mask sites in Taksim Square in Istanbul during 2013&amp;#039;s anti-government protests\" width=\"1368\" height=\"912\" \/><\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A man wearing an Anonymous-style Guy Fawkes mask sites in Taksim Square in Istanbul during 2013&#8217;s anti-government protests<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-wrapper clearfix\">\n<div class=\"main-content-column\">\n<div id=\"gigya-share-btns-2_gig_containerParent\" class=\"text-wrapper\">\n<p>Leaderless &#8216;hacktivist&#8217; group Anonymous has taken responsibility for a recent major cyberattack on Turkey, and have claimed they will continue waging war on the country&#8217;s internet services due to their belief that the Turkish government is helping Isis.<\/p>\n<p>A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Turkey&#8217;s internet between 14 and 21 December took around 400,000 websites offline, according to Turkish media, after they were overloaded with huge amounts of <span id=\"itxthook1p\" class=\"itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap\"><span id=\"itxthook1w\" class=\"itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan\">traffic<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"itxthook1icon\" class=\"itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon\" src=\"http:\/\/images.intellitxt.com\/ast\/adTypes\/icon1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The attack, which was reportedly the biggest in Turkey&#8217;s history, was only stopped when the Turkish cybersecurity agency stopped all foreign internet traffic from accessing Turkish websites, essentially closing the country&#8217;s digital borders to the outside world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-block inline-block-related-single inline-block-right\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/s3fs-public\/styles\/readmore_card\/public\/thumbnails\/image\/2015\/11\/28\/17\/Anonymous.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"context-capsule\">Read more<\/div>\n<h2>Anonymous declares war on Donald Trump over Muslim comments<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a video apparently produced by Anonymous-linked\u00a0hackers, a computer-generated voice said: &#8220;As many of you have heard, Turkey is supporting Daesh [Isis] by buying oil from them and hospitalising their fighters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We won&#8217;t accept that [President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan, the leader of Turkey, will help Isis any longer. The news media has already stated that Turkey&#8217;s internet has been the victim of massive DDoS attacks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dear Government of Turkey, if you don&#8217;t stop supporting Isis, we will continue attacking your internet, your root DNS [the foundation of Turkey&#8217;s internet], your banks and take your government sites down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"dnd-widget-wrapper context-sdl_editor_representation type-gallery\">\n<div class=\"dnd-atom-rendered\">\n<div class=\"image\">\n<div class=\"container grid-mod-gallery\" data-scald-gallery=\"4042376\">\n<h2 class=\"gallery-title\">Russian plane shot down by Turkish jets<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;After the root DNS we will start to hit your airports, military assets and private state connections. We will destroy your critical banking infrastructure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stop this insanity now, Turkey. Your fate is in your hands.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"relatedlinkslist inline-block-related-list inline-block-left\">\n<h2 class=\"box-title\">Read more<\/h2>\n<div class=\"relatedlinkslist-content\">\n<ul class=\"related\">\n<li>Anonymous declares war on Donald Trump over Muslim comments<\/li>\n<li>Anonymous activists take down website of Japanese PM<\/li>\n<li>Anonymous asks public for help in mocking Isis on &#8216;trolling day&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Anonymous is completely leaderless and has no real &#8216;official&#8217; web presence &#8211; anyone with a computer can make a video or start a Twitter account and begin declaring attacks in Anonymous&#8217;s name, making it hard to tell how real this threat is and how genuine their claims to the Turkish cyberattacks really are.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the attacks, there was speculation that the hackers responsible could have been acting on behalf of the Russian government, after Turkish missiles downed a Russian fighter jet over the Syrian border in November.<\/p>\n<p>However, Anonymous has performed a number of high-profile operations in recent months,\u00a0taking down Isis-linked websites and Twitter accounts\u00a0and releasing the names and personal information of around 1,000 alleged Ku Klux Klan members.<\/p>\n<p>Past Anonymous DDoS attacks have also disabled websites belonging to a number of <span id=\"itxthook2p\" class=\"itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap\"><span id=\"itxthook2w\" class=\"itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan\">governments<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"itxthook2icon\" class=\"itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon\" src=\"http:\/\/images.intellitxt.com\/ast\/adTypes\/icon1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span> and major companies around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The latest declaration of war from Anonymous appears to be part of the ongoing #OpIsis, an operation which has been attacking the terrorist group&#8217;s presence on the internet since the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey has long been accused of supporting Isis, with Russian President Vladimir Putin labelling the government\u00a0&#8220;accomplices of terrorists&#8221; after the jet was shot down.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anonymous threatened to attack the digital infrastructure of Turkey&#8217;s banks, airports and government Doug Bolton @DougieBolton Wednesday 23 December 2015 A man wearing an Anonymous-style Guy Fawkes mask sites in Taksim Square in Istanbul during 2013&#8217;s anti-government protests &nbsp; Leaderless &#8216;hacktivist&#8217; group Anonymous has taken responsibility for a recent major cyberattack on Turkey, and have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}