.Cyprus said Sunday that it has actually efficiently thwarted an electronic spell aimed at blocking out access to the authorities's central online site, the current in a string of similar attacks over a three-day time frame against state-run utilities and also the Cypriot subsidiary of a Greek electricity company.Cyprus' Replacement Administrative Agency of Investigation, Development as well as Digital Policy claimed in a statement that "a simple and also worked with action" through authorities foiled the attack, whose purpose was actually only to stop accessibility to specific federal government sites.The circulated denial-of-service spell, or even DDoS, merely affected the major federal government portal gov.cy "for a couple of minutes" which no other on the internet federal government administrative agency or even service website was affected.The replacement department didn't say that lagged the strikes or even what the achievable intent might possess been actually.Sunday's strike came after Cyprus' electrical energy as well as telecom authorities, and also the driver of the island country's 2 airport terminals, Hermes and also energy business EKO Cyprus Ltd., were actually targeted on Friday and Sunday.Officials told the Cyprus News organisation that all those assaults had also stopped working which no customer relevant information had actually been actually dripped or endangered.Connected: US-Built Center in Cyprus to Provide Location Protection Training.