Technology has been at the forefront of the response to the two earthquakes that recently hit Turkey and Syria and which have claimed an estimated 36,000 deaths.
In the wake of the disaster, Russian government-linked hacking group Killnet has claimed responsibility for a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that has disrupted communications between NATO officials and military aircrafts engaged in search-and-rescue operations.
A DDoS attack is a type of cyber attack that floods the target with so much data that it becomes overwhelmed and can no longer handle legitimate traffic. This often results in users being unable to access the site or service.
“We are carrying out strikes on NATO. Details in a closed channel,” the hacker group said on one of its associate Telegram channels, The Telegraph reported.
Although the NATO website was only down for a couple of hours, the DDoS attack is believed to have hampered the relief efforts, with one of NATO...