The Microsoft France website was defaced today.  The defacement included a claim that it was done by Turkish hackers.  (See: here.)  This follows another defacement on Apple's online store in May, also claimed by a Turkish hacker.

On Friday, I received a spam in a foreign language I did not understand.  At first, I thought it was Hungarian because I receive plenty of Hungarian spam due to past correspondence with Hungarian reporters.  (Postini's Threat Report, released January 2006, reports that those in publishing or advertising receive the most spam.  Because email addresses are harvested by spammers from those they infiltrate, friends of those who fall victim to such attacks also become the recipients of much spam.)  However, it was not Hungarian.  It was Turkish:

Merhaba taraftar, bagnaz !
DAVET http://almanya2006.net/
Ancak icin simdiki erbap futbot
ayni taze havadis ve hediye her
Iyisini bulamazsin !

With the help of Dr Jan Hruska, Co-founder of Sophos, who provided me this translation:

Welcome fanatical supporter !
Invitation (to visit) http://almanya2006.net/
Only for someone expert (in) football
The same fresh news and a present for her
Plentiful

with an attachment named fifabook.rar, containing fifabook.exe.  Just another World Cup scam, I thought.  Turns out, fifabook.exe is a spyware program and is detected by VirusScan as Backdoor-BAC.gen.b.

So, now Turkish computer users are being targeted for spyware installation.

It is good to note that recently, last August, Turkish officials did arrest the authors of Zotob and Mytob in a partnership of cooperation involving the FBI, Moroccan officials, and Microsoft.  But we need many more of these.

The difference though, Turkish hackers were attacking others before.  Now they've turned on their own people.