“As of this hour, all sites resumed their activity,” the agency said on Twitter.
He did not specify the origin of this attack, which consists of saturating the victim’s servers by flooding them with requests.
Although access to the Israeli government portal was restored inside Israel, the page remains unvisitable “on an international scale,” said the NetBlocks organization, which specializes in global Internet surveillance.
AFP journalists were unable to access the sites of many Israeli ministries shortly after 8:00 pm GMT (2:00 pm Mexico City time).
According to the Haaretz newspaper, a source from the country’s defense industry indicates that it is the largest cyber attack ever launched against the country.
In recent months, several Israeli sites have been the target of computer attacks attributed by experts to Iran, the country’s archenemy.