GINC-APT-0378 · Hacktivist

Aslan Neferler Tim

Also Lion Soldiers Team, Phantom Turk.

Category
Hacktivist · Political or nationalist, often disruption and leaks.
Origin
Türkiye(high confidence)
Motivation
Denial of service; Hacktivists-Nationalists
Sources
5 sources carry it
Identifier
GINC-APT-0378 · aslan-neferler-tim

What it is

Turkish nationalist hacktivist group that has been active for roughly one year. According to Domaintools, the group’s site has been registered since December 2015, with an active Twitter account since January 2016. The group carries out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and defacements against the sites of news organizations and governments perceived to be critical of Turkey’s policies or leadership, and purports to act in defense of Islam

Names

The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.

Other names
Lion Soldiers Team, Phantom Turk

Attribution

Each attribution is a claim: who makes it, and to whom. Western and Eastern sources are kept apart, as they often disagree.

Western sources

Targets

Sectors
Government, Administration, News - Media

Sources

  • Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de