Ghost Squad takes down Bank of Israel website

Softpedia reported:

Ghost Squad Hackers (GSH) have told Softpedia about their recent attacks on the websites of Bank of Israel and the Prime Minister's Office.

The attacks, which took place over the weekend, hit the Bank of Israel portal first, and then the official page of Israel Prime Minister's Office.

For these attacks, the group didn't resort to DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) but used a DoS (Denial of Service) vulnerability in the underlying web servers to take down the websites.

S1ege, GSH's leader, told Softpedia that the Bank of Israel website came back online after six hours when the bank's IT staff moved the site to new servers.

At the time of writing, 72 hours after the attack, the Prime Minister's website is still offline, sporting an error message.