Turkey — Cyber Threat Profile
Turkey enacted a comprehensive Cybersecurity Law in March 2025 and established a dedicated Cybersecurity Presidency in January 2025, but mass data breaches continue unabated, exposing a governance culture reliant on denial and vague acceptance rather than transparent incident response. A 2025 investigation found the personal data of 1.7 million students offered for sale on dark web forums, with multiple credit card leak clusters surfacing through November and December. Organizations in Turkey suffered more than ten cyberattacks on average in the past year. Iranian actors targeted Turkish aerospace and defense industries in late 2024.- National CERT/CSIRT: TR-CERT
- Data protection authority: Personal Data Protection Authority (source: CNIL)
- World Cybercrime Index 2024 (origin significance): 1.22 / 100, #28 worldwide
- Secure Internet servers per 1M people (2024): 11,103.4 (source: World Bank)
- Internet users (2025): 89.8% of population (source: World Bank)
Latest Turkey coverage
- Vendor breach exposed 6.2 million Turkish shoppers 2026-09-17 · Cyber Incidents
- Hyundai Turkey breach exposes job applicants' test results 2026-08-09 · Cyber Incidents
- New extortion crew claims Turkey's banks and flag carrier 2026-08-01 · Ransomware
- New ransomware crew Doommageddon debuts with a Mercedes-Benz Turk claim 2026-07-06 · Ransomware
Threat actors targeting Turkey
- APT28 APT
- APT41 APT
- BITTER APT
- MuddyWater APT
- Patchwork APT
- Stealth Falcon APT
- Qilin Ransomware · 28 incident(s)
- LockBit Ransomware · 13 incident(s)
- NightSpire Ransomware · 13 incident(s)
- CRPxO Ransomware · 8 incident(s)
- Deadlock Ransomware · 6 incident(s)
- Doommageddon Ransomware · 6 incident(s)
- DragonForce Ransomware · 6 incident(s)
- RansomHub Ransomware · 5 incident(s)
- BlackNevas Ransomware · 4 incident(s)
- INC Ransom Ransomware · 4 incident(s)
- Krybit Ransomware · 4 incident(s)
- The Gentlemen Ransomware · 4 incident(s)
- Stormous Hacktivist · 3 incident(s)
- APT73 Ransomware · 2 incident(s)
- Emperador Ransomware · 2 incident(s)
- N0n Ransomware · 2 incident(s)
- Nova Ransomware · 2 incident(s)
- Akira Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- ALPHV/BlackCat Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- Audit Team Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- Barracuda Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- Blackwater Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- BravoX Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- Dark Project Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- Dire Wolf Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- Embargo Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- Fog Ransomware Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- FunkSec Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- Hunters International Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- HYFLOCK Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- Majinahanashi Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- Medusa Ransomware Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- SafePay Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
Most targeted sectors
- Manufacturing 45 incident(s)
- Technology 15 incident(s)
- Agriculture & Food 10 incident(s)
- Transportation & Logistics 9 incident(s)
- Healthcare 8 incident(s)
- Business & Professional Services 7 incident(s)
- Hospitality & Tourism 7 incident(s)
- Construction 6 incident(s)
- Financial Services 6 incident(s)
- Retail & Consumer 6 incident(s)
- Government & Public Sector 4 incident(s)
- Energy & Utilities 3 incident(s)
Recent claimed incidents
- Kale Balata A 2026-10-23 · Agriculture and Food Production
- Istanbul Foodstuff Trading Co LLC 2026-10-22 · Retail & E-Commerce
- DNC Sağlık Hizmetleri AŞ 2026-10-21
- Akropol Turizm Yatırımları İnşaat ve Dış Ticaret Anonim Şirketi 2026-10-21
- Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi 2026-10-14
- merkezilac_archives 2026-10-13 · Other
- MGT Lojistik AŞ 2026-10-12 · Transportation
- Asyaport (container terminal operations) 2026-10-12 · Transportation
- Grand Ion Delemen Hotel 2026-10-10 · Hospitality
- Güllüoğlu Gıda San. ve Tic. AŞ 2026-10-08
- Kurukahveci Mehmet Efendi Mahdumları Gıda Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Şirketi 2026-10-07
- Ciftay Insaat Taahhut Ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi 2026-10-06 · Manufacturing
- ENKA Schools 2026-10-05 · Education
- OMUR HIRDAVAT LTD 2026-10-04 · Manufacturing
- Gür Grup İnşaat San.ve Tic. Anonim Şirketi 2026-10-03