The Greek government said on Friday that the official state websites of the prime minister, the national police and several important ministries were briefly disabled by a cyberattack but have been restored.

The distributed denial-of-service or DDoS attack “led to the malfunction of certain websites,” government spokesman Stelios Petsas said. “Countermeasures” had been successfully implemented, he said.

Along with the prime minister’s website, targets in the attack late Thursday included the websites of the ministries of public order, interior, foreign affairs, and merchant marine, as well as the Greek police.

It was the second cyberattack against government websites in less than a week. Responsibility for the first attack was claimed in an online post by a group of hackers who purported to be from Turkey, AP reported. Greek officials have not said whether they consider that claim to be true.

Source: RT