"Cyprus Thwarted a Digital Attack Against the Government’s Main Online Portal"

Cyprus recently announced  that it has successfully thwarted a digital attack to block access to the government's central online portal.   The government noted that the distributed denial-of-service attack, or DDoS, only affected the main government portal gov.cy "for a few minutes" and that no other online government ministry or service website was affected.  The deputy ministry didn't say who was behind the attacks or the possible motive.  This attack came after Cyprus' electricity and telecommunications authorities and the operator of the island nation's two airports, Hermes and fuel company EKO Cyprus Ltd., were targeted on Friday and Saturday.

SecurityWeek reports: "Cyprus Thwarted a Digital Attack Against the Government’s Main Online Portal"