Communications companies also took steps to return services to normal.“In the last few hours, a denial-of-service (DoS) attack has been identified on a communications provider which, as a result, has for a short time prevented access to a number of sites,” Israel’s National Cyber Directorate said in a post published on Twitter.
“As of this hour all the sites are back for activity,” it added.
Denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks typically involve outside attackers directing waves of inauthentic traffic at a website, temporarily rendering it inaccessible.
Officials did not immediately say who might be behind the cyber attack.
Earlier this year, a hacker group called Moses Staff struck Israeli closed-circuit television cameras in the occupied Palestinian territories and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, an Israeli “defense technology” company.
The group released the images that were apparently taken from CCTV cameras belonging to Rafael Advanced Defense Systems on January 28.
“This is just the beginning… In the future, we will acquaint you with the office and residence of the officials,” Moses Staff said in a message posted on its website.
Earlier in the day, the group said it had hacked into the closed-circuit television cameras on the streets of the occupied Palestinian territories.
It posted a message regarding the cyber attack on its website, titled “We see with your eyes.”
“We’ve been surveillance you for many years, at every moment and on each step. This is just one part of our surveillance over your activities through access to CCTV cameras in the occupied territories. We had said that, we will strike you while you never would have imagined,” the message read.
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In November 2021, Moses Staff announced that it had targeted a number of Israeli firms and acquired a vast trove of critical facilities’ maps, which included information on the location and characteristics of vital systems across the occupied territories.
The data, it added, included airborne mapping surveys with 5-centimeter (2-inch) accuracy and three-dimensional images of Israeli military sites and important buildings.
Moses Staff further stated that the information it had was of immense significance, amid international sanctions that prevent accurate access to aerial images of critical areas inside the Israeli-occupied Palestinian lands.
Featured image: A number of major Israeli websites went down on March 14, 2022, in a ‘massive’ cyber attack. The Israeli cyber authority confirmed the attack was a denial-of-service (DoS) attack. (Illustrative photo)
(PressTV)
