How Do They Hack Turkish e-Government Accounts?
Mert SARICA
Introduction On October 25, 2023, at 11:46, I learned that my Turkish e-Government Gateway account had been temporarily disabled for one hour due to multiple unsuccessful login attempts with the wrong password through the e-Government application and warnings sent to my email address. Although the likelihood of a threat actor…
How I Hacked my Smart Grill ?
The Russian Military Intelligence Department (GRU), targeting Mert SARICA, a high-ranking bureaucrat, assigned the notorious APT 28 hacker group, also known as Unit 26165, which has been operating since 2004, to infiltrate his home’s wireless network and retrieve Top Secret classified documents. On April 10th, APT 28 group members entered…
Home Home Secure Home
Towards the end of 2022, when my spouse and I decided to settle in the United States, our first task was to find a place to live. Having lived in a house with 24/7 residential security guard services in Istanbul, Turkey, for many years, we had never been particularly concerned…
WhatsApp Scammers
Introduction I recently received my share of calls and messages from foreign cell phone numbers, disturbing almost everyone, especially in Turkey, who has used the WhatsApp application in recent days. Of course, as in my articles on other scams (Exposing Pig Butchering Scam, LinkedIn Scammers, Instagram Scammers), I rolled up…
Was Turkey’s e-Government Hacked?
First of all, let me start by saying what I will say at the end: “No, it was not hacked!” So can you breathe a sigh of relief as a Turkish citizen in this situation ? Unfortunately no. You can read the reason for this in the rest of the…
Practical Data Leakage Analysis
Conti, a Russian-backed cybercrime group that earned $180 million in revenue from ransomware attacks in 2021, reached a major turning point in 2022 with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The group publicly supported the Russian invasion, resulting in a rift among its international members. One member began leaking internal messages from…
Exposing Pig Butchering Scam
Over the years, as I have been targeted sometimes directly (LinkedIn Scammers, Sponsored Scamming) and sometimes indirectly (Who Viewed My Profile?) by scammers, I have made it my duty to write about these attempts in blog posts and warn those around me about them. At times, I have even received…
Malicious Image
When we look at the campaigns carried out by APT groups such as Muddy Water, which also targets institutions in Turkey, we see that they sometimes use the Steganography technique. With this technique, cyber attackers try to infiltrate the target end user system through a social engineering attack and ensure…
Smart Watches for Kids
This story began on May 4, 2022, with an email from a reader named Erman ATEŞ. In his email, Mr. Erman, a conscious and sensitive father, stated that smart kids’ watches are increasingly being preferred by many parents for valid reasons, but due to their lack of conformity to standards…