"Israel" Confesses: Facing Millions of Cyber-attacks

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The "Israeli" government admitted Sunday it had become under the attack of a mass cyber-warfare campaign with millions of attempts to hack "Israeli" websites since the start of its Gaza offensive four days ago.

Speaking ahead of the weekly "Israeli" cabinet meeting, "Israeli" Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said the government was now waging war on "a second front -- of cyberattacks against "Israel"."

Steinitz said in the past four days, "Israel" had "deflected 44 million cyberattacks on government websites. All the attacks were thwarted except for one, which targeted a specific website that was down for six or seven minutes."

His remarks came a day after the online activist group Anonymous claimed to have downed dozens of websites of Zionist entity's agencies and a top bank in protest over Tel Aviv's deadly air assault.

Steinitz did not say who was responsible, but claimed "Israel" had managed to deflect almost every attack, thereby avoiding serious disruption or other damage.

On Saturday, Anonymous announced to have downed or erased the databases of nearly 700 "Israeli" private and public websites, including that of the Bank of "Israeli" finance house.

It also revealed that it has downed the "Israeli" foreign ministry website in protest over an "Israeli" threat to cut the Gaza Strip's Internet communications.

"For far too long, Anonymous has stood by with the rest of the world and watched in despair the barbaric, brutal and despicable treatment of the Palestinian people in the "Occupied Territories" by "Israel"," Anonymous said in a statement.

Steinitz made no direct reference to Anonymous and failed to specify if the Tel Aviv was dealing with a coordinated attack. He also refused to disclose which countries these efforts were being conducted from.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org