NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) 鈥 Cyprus said Sunday that it has successfully thwarted a digital attack aimed at blocking access to the government鈥檚 central online portal, the latest in a string of similar attacks over a three-day period against state-run utilities and the Cypriot subsidiary of a Greek energy company.
Cyprus鈥 Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy said in a statement that 鈥渁 quick and coordinated response鈥 by authorities foiled the attack, whose purpose was exclusively to prevent access to specific government websites.
The distributed denial-of-service attack, or DDoS, only affected the main government portal gov.cy 鈥渇or a few minutes鈥 and that no other online government ministry or service website was affected.
The deputy ministry didn鈥檛 say who was behind the attacks or what the possible motive may have been.
Sunday鈥檚 attack came after Cyprus鈥 electricity and telecommunications authorities, as well as the operator of the island nation鈥檚 two airports, Hermes and fuel company EKO Cyprus Ltd., were targeted on Friday and Saturday.
Officials told the Cyprus News Agency that all those attacks had also failed and that no client information had been leaked or compromised.
