A number of websites belonging to the Israeli government were felled in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Monday, rendering the portals inaccessible for a short period of time.
“In the past few hours, a DDoS attack against a communications provider was identified,” the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) said in a tweet. “As a result, access to several websites, among them government websites, was denied for a short time. As of now, all of the websites have returned to normal activity.”
A distributed denial-of-service attack is a malicious attempt to hamper the normal traffic of a targeted server or service by overwhelming the victim and its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of junk internet traffic by leveraging compromised computers and IoT devices as sources of attack traffic.
The development comes after internet watchdog NetBlocks reported “significant disruptions” registered on multiple networks supplied by Israel’s telecom providers Bezeq and Cellcom.
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