They found out yesterday that no less than 68 sites have been subjected to cyber attacks, which included endeavors of hacking and defacement, log jams and distributed denial of service attacks.
Among those at the less than desirable end were organizations, for example, the Department of National Defense, the Philippine Coast Guard, Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of Health, the Presidential Management Staff and the gov.ph domain registry site.
The site of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas was additionally subjected to an assumed hacking, in spite of the fact that powers could promptly thwart it.
The source of the attacks has yet to be determined, although initial investigation supposedly pointed to an entity supposedly operating from the Netherlands.
The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) that issued the decision on the Philippine case is situated in The Hague in the Netherlands.
The Information and Communications Technology Office, the antecedent of the recently made Department of Information and Communications Technology, has yet to react to ask for input with respect to the cyber attacks.
The Department of Science and Technology prior gave extra security to Philippine government sites in the midst of repeated incidents of defacements and denial of service attacks.
Prior, a digital security organization reported that the PCA site was tainted with a malware by "somebody from China" in July 2015.
Refering to data from ThreatConnect Inc., Bloomberg Business reported the attack happened amidst the week-long hearing on the ward of the mediation body of evidence documented by Manila against Beijing over the regional question in the South China Sea.
Gaelle Chevalier, a case manager at the PCA, told Bloomberg that they "have no data about the reason for the issues."
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