Internet-based activism

Out of service is the electronic auction site with the Anonymous hacker team claiming responsibility yesterday with a statement posted on facebook.

The Electronic Auction System was down until at least 11 am on Sunday.

Bomb alert at the Court of Justice in Sofia. Anonymous male voice called 112 at 8:00 this morning and reported that the court building had an explosive device installed.

On-site law enforcement officers were immediately deployed to conduct the necessary investigation, Nova TV reported. No evacuation of the building has yet been announced. iNews.bg

Greece's central bank became the target of a cyber attack by activist hacking group Anonymous on Tuesday which disrupted service of its web site, a Bank of Greece official said on Wednesday.

The online hacktivist Anonymous relaunched operation OpIcarus targeting banking sector in Europe and the United States.

The Bank of Greece had their website under a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) forcing the servers to remain offline for more than 6 hours.

An online petition is calling for the Nobel Prize to be given to the Greeks of Lesbos due to their demonstration of compassion and sacrifice as thousands of refugees have inundated their island.

Activist group Avaaz hopes to gather more than 500,000 signatures by February 1. Already there are more than 351,000 signatures thus far. The organizers of the petition stress:

A Turkish hacker team broke into a Russian minister's Instagram account on Jan. 3, as the crisis over Turkey's Nov. 24 downing of a Russian jet continued to spill online.

A number of Turkish banks reported serious disruption in online operations and credit card transactions Dec. 25, as hackers stepped up a series of cyberattacks seen in the country over the past week.

Several Turkish banks experienced sporadic disruption to credit card transactions on Friday in the latest wave of a two-week long cyber assault on public and financial websites, Reuters reported.

Maybe you have heard or maybe you have not, but last week Turkey was hit by a very fierce cyberattack. 
According to Sara Malm of the Daily Mail, the hacking group Anonymous launched a massive cyberattack on Turkey, accusing the country's leaders of supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Turkey has begun recovering from a week-long cyberattack amid criticism from IT experts over its decision to help solve the issue by prohibiting international access to the country's DNS, daily Hürriyet has reported.