Turkish banks & government sites under ‘intense’ attacks on Christmas holidays…”a wave of cyber-attacks on financial and government websites”

Saturday, December 26, 2015
By Paul Martin

RT.com
26 Dec, 2015

Turkey is suffering from a wave of cyber-attacks on financial and government websites which intensified over Christmas, reportedly resulting in the temporary disruption of credit card transactions.

A video released this week and attributed to Anonymous vowed retribution for Ankara’s alleged ties with ISIS.

The attacks on Turkish servers have been persistent in recent weeks, but on Christmas day Turkish banks suffered a website outage and reportedly saw sporadic disruption to credit card transactions. Isbank, Garanti and Ziraat Bank were among the targets, local media reported.

“It is hard to determine where these attacks are coming from, with detailed work it will be understood whether these attacks are carried out by hackers or by certain groups” said the Minister of Communications Binali Yildrim.

The DDoS attacks on Turkey’s “.tr” domain, Yildrim said were “serious” as they include domains of ministries, banks, and the military. The ministry asked Ankara’s Middle East Technical University (ODTU), which operates the “.tr” domain to step up security measures. ODTU’s analysis said that the attacks are coming from “organized sources” outside Turkey.

Turkish Telecom, in a statement to Hurriyet daily, said that they are now on “24/7 defense” as they acknowledged facing “thousands of attacks.” Most Turkish institutions use Turk Telekom as their service provider.

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