NATO’s
Special
Operations
Headquarters
and
Strategic
Airlift
Capability
—
both
working
to
deliver
humanitarian
aid
to
victims
of
the
recent
Turkish-Syrian
earthquake
—
were
among
NATO
organizations
disrupted
by
a
weekend
cyberattack.
Russian-based
Killnet
threat
group
has
claimed
responsibility
for
launching
distributed
denial-of-service
(DDoS)
attacks
against
NATO,
according
to
reports.
“We
are
carrying
out
strikes
on
NATO,”
Killnet
wrote
on
its
Telegram
channel,
according
to
The
Telegraph.
Reports
added
NATO’s
NR
network,
reportedly
used
to
transmit
sensitive
and
classified
data,
was
also
targeted.
Besides
knocking
sites
temporarily
offline,
the
cyberattack
disrupted
communications
between
NATO
and
at
least
one
of
its
airplanes
transporting
search
and
rescue
equipment
to
Incirlik
Air
Base
in
Turkey,
The
Telegraph
reported.
A
devastating
earthquake
hit
in
southeastern
Turkey
and
Syria
on
Feb,
6
and
along
with
its
aftershocks.
has
already
claimed
35,000
lives.
Emergency
workers
from
around
the
world
have
converged
on
the
area
to
join
in
efforts
to
pull
survivors
from
the
rubble.
“NATO
cyber
experts
are
actively
addressing
an
incident
affecting
some
NATO
websites,”
a
NATO
spokesperson
told
The
Telegraph
confirming
the
hack.
“NATO
deals
with
cyber
incidents
on
a
regular
basis,
and
takes
cyber
security
very
seriously.”
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