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Yesterday the Turkish cracker going by the handle “Iskorpitx”, succesfully hacked 21,549 websites in one shot (plus 17,000 as our last update) and defaced (on a secondary page) all of them with a message showing the Turkish flag (with AtaTurk face on it) and reporting:

“HACKED BY iSKORPiTX

(TURKISH HACKER)

FUCKED ARMANIAN-FUCKED FRANCE-FUCKED GREECE-FUCKED PKK TERROR

iscorpitx, marque du monde, présente ses salutations à tout le monde. ”

Iskorpitx controversial defacing activity started back in year 2003 being the first Turkish defacer ever. His defacing frenzy led him soon to reach the “incredible” number of more than 117,000 hacked websites some of them being even government websites of his own country. In this last incident, it is not clear at which level the intrusion was performed (root or webserver) as the fact that all the 21,549 websites got defaced on a secondary page (site.com/ssfm/isko.htm) it is not indicative given the particular Iskorpitx’s modus operandi that sees all of his hacks performed creating a subpage, regardless the authorization level achieved on the attacked servers.

In the recent months Iskorptix has been taken as a model to be imitated by a lot of young Turkish crackers, making Turkey the new defacers kingdom, totaling nowadays more than 50% of the notified defacements overall, surpassing the former defacers kingdom: Brazil.

Script Kiddies or Script Grannies? Iskorpitx is believed to be 45 years old, sometimes being helped for minor defacement activities by another Turkish “senior cracker” (42) going by the handle of Metlak .

Despite the fact that the majority of Turkish defacers are performing Islam-related hacks, this doesn’t seem to be the leading motivation for Iskorpitx.