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Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloglu announced that the National Cyber ??Incidents Response Center blocked 1 billion 98 million 721 thousand malicious access requests to 1.5 million IP addresses in January. Uraloglu also underlined that access to 991 domain names that carried out phishing attacks aimed at defrauding citizens was blocked in the month in question.
Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloglu evaluated the data of the National Cyber ??Incidents Intervention Center (USOM), which operates under the Information Technologies and Communication Authority (BTK).
Minister Uraloglu stated that USOM continues its work to prevent cyber threats, and emphasized that the center undertakes a critical task in terms of responding to cyber incidents, ensuring national security and coordination. Uraloglu said, “USOM ensures Turkey’s cyber security with services such as building cyber capacity, technological measures, threat intelligence and protection of critical infrastructures by conducting activities related to alarms, warnings and announcements in order to prevent domestic and foreign cyber threats.”
“We Protect Turkey’s Cyberspace 24/7”
Minister Uralo?lu, who noted that Cyber ??Incident Response Teams (SOME) are on duty 24/7 within the scope of activities to protect institutions and critical infrastructure sectors under the coordination of USOM, said, “We protect our country’s cyberspace with 2,324 SOME teams and 8,009 expert personnel within USOM. We scan 17 million IP addresses instantly and proactively detect vulnerabilities with these scans. We detected 1,165 cyber security vulnerabilities in the scans we conducted in the first month of 2025, and a total of 78,558 to date, and informed the relevant institutions.”
1 Billion 98 Million 721 Thousand 827 Access Requests Were Blocked in a Month
Underlining that USOM has detected a total of 437,027 malicious software and cyber attack connections since 2013 and blocked access to these connections, Minister Uralo?lu said, “A total of 1 billion 98 million 721 thousand 827 access requests to 1.5 million IP addresses in our country were blocked by our Cyber ??Incidents Intervention Center (SOME) in the first month of 2025.”
Scanning 286 Different Ports with 131 Weekly Scans with Hurricane
Underlining that local and national software also makes significant contributions to the intervention in cyber incidents, Minister Uralo?lu emphasized that they have undertaken exemplary work in national cyber security with projects such as Avc?, Azad and Kas?rga, which were developed entirely with internal resources. Uralo?lu stated, “With our Kas?rga project, where we conduct vulnerability scanning activities regarding open sources on the internet, we perform 286 different ports and 918 different vulnerabilities scanning with 131 scans per week.”
Access to 991 Phishing Domains Blocked
Minister Uralo?lu emphasized that with the artificial intelligence technology developed by USOM, they blocked access to 991 domain names that carried out phishing attacks aimed at defrauding citizens in January and prevented 5,869 phishing attacks. Uralo?lu underlined that USOM scanned 838,112 critical websites in Turkey for vulnerabilities in 7 hours.
