Cyber attacks targeting Jewish and Holocaust educational websites surge by 872% in 2023
Jan 26, 2024Omer Yoachimik
Summary
Mitigated 35.7 million malicious HTTP requests targeting Jewish and Holocaust educational websites in 2023, a 2,190% increase from 2022. The share of mitigated requests for these websites grew from 0.3% in 2022 to 2.6% in 2023, an 872% year-over-year growth. This surge in cyber attacks against these specific websites coincides with a 27% increase in DDoS attacks against Israeli websites.
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