Turkey's Personal Data Protection Board (KVKK) has fined Amazon.com's gaming platform Twitch 2 million lira ($58,000) over a data breach, the official Anadolu Agency reported on Saturday.
A senior official previously condemned the platform for ‘censoring’ Hamas-related content.
Turkish hackers targeting poorly secured MS SQL servers across the U.S., European Union, and Latin America.
The “RE#TURGENCE” campaign is targeting victims in the E.U., U.S. and Latin America by going after Microsoft SQL, researchers with Securonix found.
In a major digital security breach, a website is offering personal data about Turkish citizens including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that appears to have been stolen by hackers from a government services website.
CyberArk Labs discovered a new malware called Vare that is distributed over the popular chatting service, Discord. Vare has been used to target new malware operators by using social engineering tactics on them. Additionally, we have found that Vare uses Discord’s infrastructure as a backbone for its operations. This malware is linked to a new group called “Kurdistan 4455” based out of southern Turkey and is still early in its forming stage.
Cisco Talos has observed new cyber attacks targeting Turkey and other Asian countries we believe with high confidence are from groups operating under the MuddyWater umbrella of APT groups. U.S. Cyber Command recently connected MuddyWater to Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS).
