Multiple sites related to the Israeli government are down due to a cyber attack, is it the largest attack ever against Israel?
Several government-related websites, including the Prime Minister's Office in Israel, have been temporarily down due to a cyber attack. It is said that the site has already been restored, but the situation continues to be inaccessible from overseas. According to people familiar with the matter, this attack is believed to have been the largest cyberattack ever against Israel.
Israeli government sites crash in cyberattack --Israel News --Haaretz.com
Cyberattack Temporarily Crashes Israeli Government Websites --Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-14/israeli-government-websites-crash-and-emergency-declared
Denial-of-service attack knocked Israeli government sites offline --CyberScoop
https://www.cyberscoop.com/israel-ddos-government-websites-netblocks/
According to Israeli cyber authorities, the DDoS attack brought down websites such as the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of Welfare on the night of March 14, local time. It is said that each site has already been restored, but some sites cannot be accessed from overseas, and in fact, when accessing from Japan, the site of the Israeli Embassy in Japan cannot be seen.
Defense officials described the cyberattack as 'the largest ever Israeli suffered.' The attack appears to be from a national or large organization, but has not yet been identified.
According to the Israeli Department of Defense, the attack was targeted at the '.gov.il' domain used by Israeli government-related websites, and an emergency was immediately declared for damage investigation, and infrastructure such as water and electricity was declared. It is said that it is checking whether an attack aimed at is being carried out. Netblocks, a net monitoring group, speculates that telecommunications companies Bezeq and Cellcom were attacked, and it has been pointed out that it is affecting non-governmental sites.
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