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CYBER WAR: ARMENIA RETALIATES FOR SAFAROV'S PARDON BY HACKING OFFICIAL AZERI WEBSITES
By Gohar Abrahamyan
ArmeniaNow
03.09.12 | 16:31
The August 31 extradition and further pardon of Azeri murderer
Ramil Safarov serving a life sentence in Hungary for killing an
Armenia officer has been met with many acts of protest, including
cyber attacks.
Information Security expert Samvel Martirosyan told ArmeniaNow
that a group of Armenian hackers has attacked 15 Azeri websites
of highest importance. To retaliate, Azeri hackers have attacked
Armenian websites.
"This is the biggest cross-fire in the Armenian and Azerbaijan cyber
war of the recent years. Both sides have been attacking for the past
two years: DDoS attacks, when a website simply becomes 'not accessible'
and when the site is hacked and injected with unrelated content," says
Martirosyan, adding that Azeri cyber attackers have hacked around 40
Armenian websites, and the Armenians - some 20 Azeri websites, however
Armenian hackers have targeted mostly state-government and news sites.
"Our experts have hacked president.az and, in fear of infiltration
Azeris shut down the site for more than a day. Next were the
official websites of Azerbaijan's tourism and culture ministry,
communication and transport ministry, and of public TV companies,"
details Martirosyan.
According to him, Azeri cyber attacks have mostly failed to hack
Armenian news sites, they have been able to hack only GALA TV's and VEB
TV's websites (which recovered shortly after). Armenians have hacked
the websites of four main information agencies, and as a result one
of them (Vesti.az) lost its server hosting.
Armenian cyber experts have placed photos of Safarov, his victim
Gurgen Margaryan or Armenian national hero Monte Alexanyan with
captions saying "Like Nation, Like Heroes".
There was news circulated on Facebook social network that today
Armenian hackers have attacked the official website of the Azeri
Supreme Court.
By Gohar Abrahamyan
ArmeniaNow
03.09.12 | 16:31
The August 31 extradition and further pardon of Azeri murderer
Ramil Safarov serving a life sentence in Hungary for killing an
Armenia officer has been met with many acts of protest, including
cyber attacks.
Information Security expert Samvel Martirosyan told ArmeniaNow
that a group of Armenian hackers has attacked 15 Azeri websites
of highest importance. To retaliate, Azeri hackers have attacked
Armenian websites.
"This is the biggest cross-fire in the Armenian and Azerbaijan cyber
war of the recent years. Both sides have been attacking for the past
two years: DDoS attacks, when a website simply becomes 'not accessible'
and when the site is hacked and injected with unrelated content," says
Martirosyan, adding that Azeri cyber attackers have hacked around 40
Armenian websites, and the Armenians - some 20 Azeri websites, however
Armenian hackers have targeted mostly state-government and news sites.
"Our experts have hacked president.az and, in fear of infiltration
Azeris shut down the site for more than a day. Next were the
official websites of Azerbaijan's tourism and culture ministry,
communication and transport ministry, and of public TV companies,"
details Martirosyan.
According to him, Azeri cyber attacks have mostly failed to hack
Armenian news sites, they have been able to hack only GALA TV's and VEB
TV's websites (which recovered shortly after). Armenians have hacked
the websites of four main information agencies, and as a result one
of them (Vesti.az) lost its server hosting.
Armenian cyber experts have placed photos of Safarov, his victim
Gurgen Margaryan or Armenian national hero Monte Alexanyan with
captions saying "Like Nation, Like Heroes".
There was news circulated on Facebook social network that today
Armenian hackers have attacked the official website of the Azeri
Supreme Court.