Cyprus thwarted a digital attack against the government’s main online portal

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus says it has successfully thwarted a digital attack aimed at blocking access to the government’s central online portal. It was the latest in a string of similar attacks over a three-day period against state-run utilities and the Cypriot subsidiary of a Greek energy company. Cyprus’ Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy said in a statement Sunday that authorities foiled the attack whose purpose was exclusively to prevent access to specific government websites. 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.