By Jay Syrmopoulos Anonymous claimed responsibility for a massive cyber attack on Turkish servers, that resulted in over 40,000 websites being taken offline. The large-scale DDoS attack, #OpTurkey, was carried out as part of a campaign against the Turkish government for their continued support of the Islamic State.
#Anonymous Claims Responsibility For 40 Gbps DDoS Attack on Turkish Servers https://t.co/g3qjHLzFMM #OpTurkey pic.twitter.com/ZnPAUK0j02
— Anonymous Operations (@AnonOpsSE) December 21, 2015
According to a report by RT:
The DDoS attack (measured in gigabits per second, or plainly how much traffic is being sent to a site) on Turkish DNS servers reached 40 Gbps, quite enough to shut down altogether …read more