LARGE SCALE DEFACEMENTS OF SWEDISH WEB SITES BY TURKISH HACKTIVISTS

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March 23 2010

The Swedish parliament recently passed a resolution recognizing the
deaths of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire (now
the nation state of Turkey) in 1915 and 1916. The Turkish government
has protested the action by Sweden as well as the United States (H
Res 252) in recent days through official protests and by calling off
this year’s meeting of the American-Turkish Council.

Additionally, on March 17, 2010, Turkey’s Prime Minister threatened
to deport 100,000 Armenians back to their homeland.

Coinciding with their government’s protests, Turkish hackers have
defaced over 600 Swedish websites since March 1st according to the
Zone-h.org archive.

The following hackers are involved in the protest: â- 1923Turk â- Sql @
live.se * () â- DeathSystem â- Bond Bey â- Akincilar
(cyberwarrior.org) â- Ghost61 (Turksec.info) â- iSkorpitx SQL @ live.se
is an Arabic hacker crew whose .se defacement text focused on Israel
rather than Sweden. One of the Turkish hacker crews who have not posted
a defacement of Swedish websites at zone-h.org is Turkguvenligi.info
who GreyLogic analysts have featured in past IntelFusion FLASH Traffic
briefs. Their Facebook group has become inactive as of mid-February
and they have set up a new forum called TurkSec.info(registration
required). One member of that forum, Ghost61, has participated in these
attacks while the more well-known members like Agd_Scorp have not.

Considering the lack of Swedish government websites hacked and
the inaction on the part of more well-known Turkish hackers, it is
GreyLogic’s estimate that this action is not state-sponsored but
falls in the category of a purely voluntary hacktivist event.

The above post is excerpted from the March 22, 2010 issue of
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