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HACKER ATTACKS AGAINST ARMENIAN SEGMENT OF THE WEB: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
http://www.noravank.am/eng/articles/detail.php?ELEMENT_ID=6660
01.10.2012
Samvel Martirosyan
Expert, Center for Information Studies, "Noravank" Foundation
The Azerbaijani and Turkish hacker groups continue to constitute
menace to the Armenian segment of the Internet. Hackers regularly
arrange attacks on Armenian web sites. Emails and social network
profiles of the individuals are also being hacked.
>From 50 to 100 Armenian web sites fall victims of the Azerbaijani and
Turkish hacker groups monthly. But sometimes it happens that hackers
manage to capture servers on which many sites are hosted. Thus,
on July 1 at once 86 web sites were attacked1.
The statistics of the attacks shows that the main activity of the
hackers is rather predictable.
Azerbaijani hacker groups have several main days for the attacks:
* January 20 - on this day Azerbaijan celebrates bringing of the
Soviet troops into Baku (immediately after the Armenian pogroms on
January 13-19), as a result many pogrom-makers and peaceful civilians
were killed2.
* Late February - in connection with the events in Khojalu3 * March
31 - on the day of the so-called Azerbaijani genocide.
Besides, the attempts are made on the national holidays of Armenia.
They also attack at the end of December and on the first days of
January, as well as in August. This is conditioned by the fact that
on these days control over the sites is weakened sharply due to the
holidays and vacations.
The Turkish hackers mainly attack in the period of April 24. They
also activate during the discussions of the Armenian Genocide on a
state level in different countries.
Though quite rarely but combined actions by Turkish and Azerbaijani
hacker groups are also implemented. The Azerbaijani and Turkish hacker
groups often deface web sites of the third countries and place there
anti-Armenian content. Thus on March 31 Azerbaijani hackers defaced
several hundred web sites in different countries but in the Azerbaijani
press it was presented as a successful attack against the Armenian
web sites. However, the list of the defaced web sites presented by
the hackers comes to prove that most of them are not Armenian and
the Armenian web sites presented there were attacked previously4.
There are following main types of the successful attacks5:
* SQL Injection6 - 87%.
* Wrong usage of additional software used at the web-sites - about 11%.
* Key exhaustion - about 2%.
The fact that most of the attacks against the individuals were
registered in 2012 causes concern. There were three cases when Turkish
and Azerbaijani hackers placed on the web more than 400 Armenian email
addresses with their passwords7. And several mailboxes belonged to the
journalists. It is difficult even to imagine the amount of the possible
information leakage over that period, because there could have been
correspondence of people who hold a prominent place in the society.
Statistics of the Armenian web sites defacement:
Diagram 1 Hacker attacks against the Armenian segment of the Internet
in 2011, according to Cybergates.
[2012-10-01_120144.gif]
Diagram 2 Hacker attacks against the Armenian segment of the Internet
in 2012, according to Cybergates.
[2012-10-01_120209.gif]
1 http://www.tert.am/am/news/2012/07/02/hackers/
2 http://baku.am/top-content-3
3 http://xocali.net/
4 List of posted by the hackers on their Facebook
page.https://www.evernote.com/shard/s8/sh/35a11b49-eb6b-4cfc-9b2f-ce4ef2ace674/fa
90a39b106975b285c30d49d46038ec
5 According to the data presented by the vice-chairman of "Internet
Society" Grigor Saghyan for 2011-2012.
6http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B
8%D0%B5_SQL-%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0
7 Lists of the mailboxes attacked:
http://kornelij.livejournal.com/1226184.html
http://kornelij.livejournal.com/1234116.html
http://kornelij.livejournal.com/1236276.html
"Globus" analytical journal, #9, 2012
__________________________________________________ __________________________
Another materials of author * DEVELOPMENTS OF ARMENIA'S SEGMENTS
OF THE INTERNET[30.07.2012] * THE IMAGE OF THE INTERNET USER
IN ARMENIA[17.05.2012] * ARMENIA IS BECOMING VULNERABLE TO
CYBER-ATTACKS[30.01.2012] * THE AGE OF SOCIAL NETWORKS: CHANGES
IN THE INFORMATION FIELD[19.01.2012] * MOBILE CIVIL JOURNALISM:
OPPORTUNITIES AND PROBLEMS[19.09.2011]
From: Baghdasarian
http://www.noravank.am/eng/articles/detail.php?ELEMENT_ID=6660
01.10.2012
Samvel Martirosyan
Expert, Center for Information Studies, "Noravank" Foundation
The Azerbaijani and Turkish hacker groups continue to constitute
menace to the Armenian segment of the Internet. Hackers regularly
arrange attacks on Armenian web sites. Emails and social network
profiles of the individuals are also being hacked.
>From 50 to 100 Armenian web sites fall victims of the Azerbaijani and
Turkish hacker groups monthly. But sometimes it happens that hackers
manage to capture servers on which many sites are hosted. Thus,
on July 1 at once 86 web sites were attacked1.
The statistics of the attacks shows that the main activity of the
hackers is rather predictable.
Azerbaijani hacker groups have several main days for the attacks:
* January 20 - on this day Azerbaijan celebrates bringing of the
Soviet troops into Baku (immediately after the Armenian pogroms on
January 13-19), as a result many pogrom-makers and peaceful civilians
were killed2.
* Late February - in connection with the events in Khojalu3 * March
31 - on the day of the so-called Azerbaijani genocide.
Besides, the attempts are made on the national holidays of Armenia.
They also attack at the end of December and on the first days of
January, as well as in August. This is conditioned by the fact that
on these days control over the sites is weakened sharply due to the
holidays and vacations.
The Turkish hackers mainly attack in the period of April 24. They
also activate during the discussions of the Armenian Genocide on a
state level in different countries.
Though quite rarely but combined actions by Turkish and Azerbaijani
hacker groups are also implemented. The Azerbaijani and Turkish hacker
groups often deface web sites of the third countries and place there
anti-Armenian content. Thus on March 31 Azerbaijani hackers defaced
several hundred web sites in different countries but in the Azerbaijani
press it was presented as a successful attack against the Armenian
web sites. However, the list of the defaced web sites presented by
the hackers comes to prove that most of them are not Armenian and
the Armenian web sites presented there were attacked previously4.
There are following main types of the successful attacks5:
* SQL Injection6 - 87%.
* Wrong usage of additional software used at the web-sites - about 11%.
* Key exhaustion - about 2%.
The fact that most of the attacks against the individuals were
registered in 2012 causes concern. There were three cases when Turkish
and Azerbaijani hackers placed on the web more than 400 Armenian email
addresses with their passwords7. And several mailboxes belonged to the
journalists. It is difficult even to imagine the amount of the possible
information leakage over that period, because there could have been
correspondence of people who hold a prominent place in the society.
Statistics of the Armenian web sites defacement:
Diagram 1 Hacker attacks against the Armenian segment of the Internet
in 2011, according to Cybergates.
[2012-10-01_120144.gif]
Diagram 2 Hacker attacks against the Armenian segment of the Internet
in 2012, according to Cybergates.
[2012-10-01_120209.gif]
1 http://www.tert.am/am/news/2012/07/02/hackers/
2 http://baku.am/top-content-3
3 http://xocali.net/
4 List of posted by the hackers on their Facebook
page.https://www.evernote.com/shard/s8/sh/35a11b49-eb6b-4cfc-9b2f-ce4ef2ace674/fa
90a39b106975b285c30d49d46038ec
5 According to the data presented by the vice-chairman of "Internet
Society" Grigor Saghyan for 2011-2012.
6http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B
8%D0%B5_SQL-%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0
7 Lists of the mailboxes attacked:
http://kornelij.livejournal.com/1226184.html
http://kornelij.livejournal.com/1234116.html
http://kornelij.livejournal.com/1236276.html
"Globus" analytical journal, #9, 2012
__________________________________________________ __________________________
Another materials of author * DEVELOPMENTS OF ARMENIA'S SEGMENTS
OF THE INTERNET[30.07.2012] * THE IMAGE OF THE INTERNET USER
IN ARMENIA[17.05.2012] * ARMENIA IS BECOMING VULNERABLE TO
CYBER-ATTACKS[30.01.2012] * THE AGE OF SOCIAL NETWORKS: CHANGES
IN THE INFORMATION FIELD[19.01.2012] * MOBILE CIVIL JOURNALISM:
OPPORTUNITIES AND PROBLEMS[19.09.2011]
From: Baghdasarian