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Cyprus said on Sunday it had foiled a digital attack aimed at blocking access to the government’s main online portal, the latest in a series of similar attacks over three days against state utilities and the Cypriot subsidiary of a Greek energy company. .
Cyprus’ Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy said in a statement that a “quick and coordinated response” from the authorities prevented the attack, which was aimed only at blocking access to certain government websites .
The distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack only affected the main government portal gov.cy “for a few minutes” and no ministry website or other online government service was affected.
The deputy ministry did not say who was behind the attacks or what the reason might be.
Sunday’s raid came after Cyprus’ electricity and telecommunications authorities, as well as the operator of the island nation’s two airports, Hermes and fuel company EKO Cyprus Ltd., were targeted on Friday and Saturday.
Officials told the Cyprus News Agency that all these attacks had also failed and no customer information had been leaked or compromised. [ΑΠ]
