The Cyprus government faced a string of attacks over a three-day period targeting state-run utilities and the Cypriot subsidiary of a Greek energy company last week. The latest of these attacks occurred on Sunday, targeting the government’s online portal, and was thwarted by a quick and coordinated response by the authorities.
Cyprus’ Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy has stated that the purpose of the attack was exclusively to prevent access to specific government websites. The Distributed Denial of Service(DDoS) attack only affected the main government portal gov.cy for a few minutes and no other government service or website was affected.
DDoS Attack: A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service, or network by overwhelming it with a flood of internet traffic.
The perpetrators and motive behind the attack remain unknown.
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. These attacks also failed with no client information leaked or compromised.
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