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    HACKER ACTIVITY BETWEEN ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN

    http://www.noravank.am/eng/articles/detail.php?ELEMENT_ID=12583
    03.03.2014

    Samvel Martirosyan
    Expert, Center of Information Studies, Noravank Foundation

    In January 2014 a number of hacker attacks on Armenian and Azerbaijani
    websites took place. On one hand, it was a part of the series of
    attacks traditionally launched every January, and on the other hand
    it was different in terms of some qualitative and quantitative changes.

    It is obvious that new hacker groups are formed in Armenia, which
    act only against the Azerbaijani sector of the internet.

    Every year, on January 20 Azeri hacker groups carry out attacks
    on Armenian sites. This is done in commemoration of Baku events
    on January 20, 1990, during which the clashes between Soviet Army
    and combatants of the Azerbaijani Popular Front resulted in deaths
    of dozens of people, including innocent bystanders (these clashes
    followed the massacre of Armenians in Baku on January 13-19, 1990 1).

    The mass attack of Azerbaijani hackers on Armenian sites2 on January
    20 opened up the 2014 new season of Armenian-Azerbaijani hacker war.

    In 2014 (January and first 10 days of February) total 85 Armenian
    sites were hacked. In response, the Armenians hacked 40 Azerbaijani
    sites (see Figure 1). About 10% of the hacked sites were targeted by
    hackers from foreign countries.

    Figure 1. Statistics of Cybergates.org on the number of hacked/defaced
    sites in .am and .az domains in the period of January and first 10
    days of February, 2014

    It has to be noted that as far as the attack targets are concerned,
    Azerbaijani government sites are hacked time to time. As for the
    Armenian segment, the situation is somewhat ambiguous. On one hand,
    since autumn 2009, when the government sites of the Republic of
    Armenia went under protection of the National Security Service,
    there has been no successful attack on them. On the other hand,
    government sites of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic come under attack
    several times in any year. For example, on January 20, 2014, five
    NKR government sites were attacked by Azerbaijani hackers3.

    Yearly statistics (see Figures 2 to 4, where .az sites are denoted
    in red, and .am sites in blue) show that by 2013 the situation with
    the Armenian sites has improved, whereas with the Azerbaijani sites
    it has worsened, which can be explained by the fact that Armenian
    hacker groups are stepping up their activities.

    In 2012-2013 some rather serious changes actually occurred in the
    hacker communities. In Azerbaijan the hacker groups acting against
    Armenia and Armenians merged and formed the largest Azerbaijani
    hacker group called Antiarmenia. The increased activity of Azerbaijani
    hackers prompted Armenian hackers to form new groups that target both
    Azerbaijani and Turkish sites. While in 2010-2011 there were just
    two-three few small hacker groups in Armenia, in 2013-2014 about
    10 groups emerged. Among those, to mention a few, are: Armenian
    Cyber Army, Ananun, A.S.A.L.A, Monte Melkonian Cyber Army, Armenian
    Rabiz Army.

    As a matter of fact, mutual hacking attacks led to a sporadic emergence
    of hacker communities, which may be used in future to create formal
    cyber-armies in both countries.

    Figure 2. Statistics provided by Cybergates.org on the number of
    hacked/defaced sites in .am and .az domains in 2011.

    Figure 3. Statistics provided by Cybergates.org on the number of
    hacked/defaced sites in .am and .az domains in 2012.

    Figure 4. Statistics provided by Cybergates.org on the number of
    hacked/defaced sites in .am and .az domains in 2013.

    1 Massacres of Armenians in 1990 http://baku.am/top-content-3

    2 List of the hacked Armenian sites during
    the Azerbaijani "black January" attack,
    http://www.banman.am/2014/01/azerbaijan-hack-armenian-sites.html

    3 The list of the five NKR government sites hacked by Azerbaijanis on
    January 20, 2014 is as follows: jraberd.nk.am , edu.nkr.am, mud.nkr.am,
    sport.nkr.am , police.nkr.am

    Globus analytical journal, No. 2, 2014

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