Cyberattack Temporarily Crashes Israeli Government Websites (1)

A cyberattack crashed a number of Israeli government websites Monday, according to the country’s cyber officials.

The Israel National Cyber Directorate blamed the outages on a denial-of-service or DDoS attack. Such incidents typically involve outside attackers directing waves of inauthentic traffic at a website, temporarily rendering it inaccessible.

Ministries of health, justice, welfare were affected, as was the prime minister’s office, the news site Haaretz reported.

Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel convened a meeting with officials at his office, and communications companies took steps to return service to normal. Access to the websites has been restored, the agency said.

Hendel declined ...