Greece And Turkey In Conflict

Turkish hackers from  a group calling itself Anka Neferler have recently claimed responsibility for cyberattacks on Greek government sites in claimed retaliation to the Greek government’s stance on a recent Turkish agreement with Libya. 

Greek officials confirmed that the Turkish attacks had taken place and said that measures would be taken to prevent similar ones in the future. The attacks  have included the Greek National Intelligence Services (EYP), Greek Parliament, the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Finance.

Within 12 hours of these attacks a Greek group, known as Anonymous Greece, retaliated with cyberattacks on a number of Turkish websites. “As the Turks hit yesterday, so did we the day after in response. Let it be known that the attacks have just begun. For every new attack, we will be posting a new article,” the group wrote on their website.

Sources in the Greek government said that the attacks used Denial of Service (DOS) as a means to disrupt normal Internet operations. The flood of network traffic was detected by government authorities who disconnected servers before additional damage could occur. Attackers were unable to steal data or post messages, however the Greek Parliament website was overloaded and went offline.

The investigation into the hacks is ongoing, and despite the Turkish group’s claims to be behind the hacks there has been no data to indicate their involvement so far. Following the cyberattack on Greek government websites, many key websites such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are still ‘down’ leading to major headaches for both citizens and the government.

According to reports, all Greek embassies and diplomatic missions such as Consulates, will be faced with a major communication problem as a consequence of the server of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs being offline. 

All communication such as that between Consulates and Embassies with the outside world will be impossible, leading to a major operational issues. 

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