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Saturday, July 24, 2010

5 Armenian websites defaced - January 2007

DATE:
2007-01

AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
Armenia

AFFECTED SITES:
openarmenia.com, openarmenia.ru, tamanyan.org, homeopathy.am, photoblogs.am

EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
Defaced

SOURCE COUNTRY:
Azerbaijan

ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
Bacioglu

TYPE OF ATTACK:
Hack, defacement

ATTACK SPECIFICS:
n/a

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Azerbaijani hacker defaces 5 Armenian websites with his state's emblem and images of Azerbaijani civilians killed in Nagorno-Karabakh. Also a pledge to "fight you and all Armenians on earth as long as I live" and a threat to destroy the official website of Armenian President Kocharian. (1) One in a series of many attacks related to the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute.

URLS:
1. http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav020807a.shtml

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