Israel said Monday (March 14) it suffered a cyberattack that disrupted a number of government sites.
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In the past few hours, a denial of service (DDoS) attack has been identified on a communications provider which, as a result, for a short time prevented access to a number of sites, including government sites
“, indicated the national direction of cybersecurity.
"
From this hour, all sites have resumed their activity
," said this organization on twitter.
He did not specify the origin of this attack, which consists in saturating the servers of the victim by burying him under the requests.
Although access to the Israeli government site was restored inside Israel, it was '
unreachable internationally '
said the NetBlocks organization, which specializes in monitoring the Internet around the world.
AFP journalists failed to access the sites of many Israeli ministries shortly after 20:00 GMT.
According to the Haaretz daily, a source within the country's defense industry says it is the largest cyberattack ever launched against the country.
The Communications Ministry said it conducted a "
situational assessment with the ministry's emergency services following a widespread cyber attack on government sites
".
In recent months, several Israeli sites have been the target of computer attacks attributed by experts to Iran, the sworn enemy of the Jewish state.
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For its part, Tehran recently accused Washington and the Jewish state of a cyberattack that disrupted its fuel distribution system.
On Sunday, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic of Iran claimed responsibility for firing missiles against a target in Iraqi Kurdistan presented as a “
strategic center
” of Israel, but the local Kurdish authorities denied the existence of such Jewish state sites on their territory.