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The United Arab Emirates Computer Emergency Response Team (aeCERT) of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has succeeded in preventing some 289 cyber attacks during the first quarter of 2017, reflecting its efforts in countering attempts to hack websites
or interrupt their services.
The cyber-attacks, which the aeCERT successfully prevented from January to the end of March, represent 27.4 percent of the number of cyber-attacks that it dealt with in 2016, which reached 1,054.
According to the latest statistics
released by the TRA, the attacks targeted government and quasi-government websites, as well as private sector websites such as those of
several local banks.
The first month of the current year witnessed the largest number of cyber-attacks, reaching a total of
136, with 133 against government websites and three against private sector websites.