Pan-Arab satellite tv for pc community Al Jazeera stated it was subjected to continuous hacking makes an attempt over latest days however the cyber assault on Qatar’s flagship broadcaster had been fended off.
Al Jazeera’s web sites and platforms skilled “continued electronic attacks aimed at accessing, disrupting and controlling some of the news platforms” from final Saturday to Tuesday, the community stated in a press release.
“Al Jazeera’s service provider was able to monitor and fend off all the hacking attacks and prevent them from achieving their goal,” it stated within the late Wednesday assertion.
It stated the height of the assaults got here on Sunday forward of a documentary described on Al Jazeera’s Arabic YouTube channel as detailing oblique negotiations between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas, which included a voice recording purportedly of an Israeli held prisoner in Gaza.
Al Jazeera had no quick additional remark when contacted by Reuters early on Thursday.
The Qatar-funded channel’s protection of Middle East politics is considered inflammatory by many within the area and was one of many components that led 4 Arab states to boycott Qatar in 2017.
Ahead of the embargo, Al Jazeera combated a large-scale cyberattack after Qatar’s state information company QNA was hacked.
Saudi Arabia and its allies final January introduced the tip of the row through which the boycotting states accused Qatar of supporting terrorism, an accusation it denies.
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