Ayyildiz Tim

Profile narrative

Ayyildiz Tim, also known as Ayyildiz Tim Hack Team, is a Turkish nationalist cyber group that has been identified in open sources as operating from Turkey. The group describes itself as patriotic, claiming to be soldiers of the virtual world whose mission is to stop anti‑Turkish messages and to carry out propaganda activities. This self‑characterisation is the only publicly available statement about its internal ideology or goals. No further details about its size, structure, or internal hierarchy have been disclosed in the referenced material.

The group’s known activity involves targeting websites that it perceives as conveying anti‑Turkish content, with the sole documented incident being the defacement of North Mundham Primary School’s website in Sussex, United Kingdom, on 23 April 2017. In that case the attackers replaced the site’s normal layout with a plain white background and a red logo, inserted messages in both Turkish and English, and displayed the note “HELLO ADMIN SYSTEM HACKED” while background music played. The action was intended to communicate a propaganda message and to disrupt the normal operation of the targeted web presence, rather than to pursue financial gain or espionage. No evidence links the group to financial theft, data exfiltration, or state‑sponsored objectives.

The observed tactics, techniques, and procedures are limited to website defacement, which includes altering visual elements such as background colour and logo, inserting textual statements, and embedding audio playback. No malware families, exploit kits, phishing vectors, or specific tooling have been mentioned in the source material regarding this actor’s operations. Consequently, any description of initial access methods, persistence mechanisms, or command‑and‑control infrastructure would be speculative and is omitted here. The group’s approach appears focused on achieving visibility and delivering a political statement through direct modification of publicly accessible web content.

Attribution to a specific state sponsor or criminal consortium has not been established in the publicly established reporting ties to Turkish nationalist hacking collective operating independently. The North Mundham Primary School defacement remains the only publicly reported operation attributed to Ayyildiz Tim, and no additional campaigns or incidents are cited in the available sources. The incident prompted a police investigation and public reassurance efforts, but authorities concluded that no specific threat to child safety existed beyond the website disruption itself. This summarizes the confirmed facts about the actor based solely on the provided information.

Incidents

Attributed incidents are available to members.