NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus mentioned Sunday that it has efficiently thwarted a digital assault geared toward blocking entry to the federal government’s central on-line portal, the newest in a string of comparable assaults over a three-day interval towards state-run utilities and the Cypriot subsidiary of a Greek vitality firm.

Cyprus’ Deputy Ministry of Analysis, Innovation and Digital Coverage mentioned in a press release that “a fast and coordinated response” by authorities foiled the assault, whose objective was completely to forestall entry to particular authorities web sites.

The distributed denial-of-service assault, or DDoS, solely affected the primary authorities portal gov.cy “for a couple of minutes” and that no different on-line authorities ministry or service web site was affected.

The deputy ministry didn’t say who was behind the assaults or what the doable motive could have been.

Sunday’s assault got here after Cyprus’ electrical energy and telecommunications authorities, in addition to the operator of the island nation’s two airports, Hermes and gas firm EKO Cyprus Ltd., have been focused on Friday and Saturday.

Officers informed the Cyprus Information Company that each one these assaults had additionally failed and that no shopper info had been leaked or compromised.

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