AL-QUDS (Dispatches) -- The Zionist regime’s cyber directorate (INCD) has issued a warning about possible cyberattacks against the occupying regime’s websites.
On its Facebook page, the INCD provided a number of recommendations to strengthen protection against cyberattacks in the run-up to the Quds Day, or Al-Quds Day, an annual event held on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which falls on April 29 this year.
The general public is advised to refrain from opening or downloading suspicious files, browsing damaged websites, or providing personal information such as passwords and account information.
According to the INCD, the Quds Day is usually a peak time for the distribution of anti-Zionist messages and attacks on the regime’s websites in the past few years.
Quds Day was initiated by the late founder of Iran’s Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979 to express support for the Palestinians.
Protests are held on the day every year in Iran and all across the world to protest against the Zionist regime’s occupation of East Al-Quds since the 1967 war.
Meanwhile, the Zionist regime has admitted that the regime’s sites were targeted on the 14th of March.
The Zionist regime suffered a DDoS attack that affected several sites affiliated with the regime, including the ministries of judiciary affairs, welfare, health, and interior.
According to Haaretz, the Israeli daily, a source within the regime’s war ministry stated that the cyber-attack is perhaps the largest the regime has ever witnessed.
INCD said on Twitter, “In the past few hours, a DDoS attack against a communications provider was identified. As a result, access to several websites, among them regime websites, was denied for a short time. As of now, all of the websites have returned to normal activity.”
However, the internet watchdog organization NetBlocks did state that later in the day of the attack, the websites were indeed accessible inside the occupied territories but “unreachable internationally.”