Reza Jalali said the Americans and Zionists were definitely behind the cyberattack that disrupted the fuel distribution system at Irans gas stations on October 26. "From our point of view, this attack has definitely been carried out by the Americans and the Zionists," Jalali said in a televised interview on Saturday. The attack targeted "the ...

Irans transportation ministry has confirmed a cyber attack targeted its internal websites and parts of its online infrastructure on Saturday, saying an investigation has been launched to determine the causes and origins of the attack. Following a disruption in the staff computer systems in the headquarters of the Ministry of Road and Urban Development,...

Iranian Oil Ministry officials have denied rumors that the countrys gas transfer network came under a cyber attack in recent days. Ministry Spokesman Kasra Nouri said on Wednesday that claims about disruption caused to the supply of gas due to an allegedcyber attack on the networkwere simply untrue. Nouri told the official IRNA news agency that ...

Irans telecoms ministry has dismissed reports that the countrys computer systems were target of a massive and coordinated cyber attack on Tuesday, saying the attack only targeted systems in two government agencies. The information security agency MAHER said in a Wednesday statement that it had issued notices to various government departments demanding ...

Tasnim Irans Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Tehran reserves the right to resort to the cyberspace or any other means to respond to the cyberattacks launched by foreign governments and regimes. Speaking to reporters, Seyed Abbas Mousavi talked about the claims that certain governments and regimes have launched cyberattacks and acts of sabotage ...

Reuters - Iran will retaliate against any country that carries out cyber attacks on its nuclear sites, the head of civilian defence said, after a fire at its Natanz plant which some Iranian officials said may have been caused by cyber sabotage. The Natanz uranium-enrichment site, much of which is underground, is one of several Iranian facilities ...

Press TV - A senior Iranian official says the large-scale cyber attack that recently targeted the Islamic Republics infrastructure probably originated from the United States. On February 8, the Iranian internet service suffered hours of disruption in what telecoms authorities said was the result of DDoS cyber attack that was dealt with swiftly. ...

AP Irans telecommunications minister announced on Sunday that the country has defused a second cyberattack in less than a week, this time aimed at spying on government intelligence. Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said in a short Twitter post that the alleged attack was identified and defused by a cybersecurity shield, and that the spying servers ...

The New York Times | Farnaz Fassihi and Ronen Bergman: The details of millions of Iranian bank cards were published online after antigovernment protests last month. Experts suspect a state-sponsored cyberattack. After demonstrators in Iran set fire to hundreds of bank branches last month in antigovernment protests, the authorities dealt with another ...

MNA ICT Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said Wed. that a major cyberattack against the infrastructures of Irans e-government has been successfully repelled. He broke the news while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting on Wednesday. Recently, a highly organized and state-sponsored cyberattack was carried out against ...

Press TV - Iranian Minister of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi has warned of a rise in cyber threatsin the world, saying Tehran has foiled some 33 million cyber attacks over the past year alone. Azari Jahromi made the remarks in an address to a ministerial gathering of the Munich Security Conference Core ...

IRNA Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zangeneh on Sunday emphasized that all companies and facilities of the oil industry should exercise full alert to physical and cyber threats amid sanctions targeting the oil industry. Zangeneh made the remarks in a message to mark National Day of Fire Safety in remembrance of the US air strikes on Iranian oil platforms ...

IRNA Some 40,000 to 50,000 minor cyber-attacks target Iran everyday, according to the head of Civil Defense Organization. Speaking to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) correspondent on Tuesday, Brigadier-General Gholamreza Jalali said that cyber-attacks are divided into three categories: the minor ones, the moderate ones and the highly-important ...

Press TV - Iran says it has successfully thwarted a wave of cyber attacks apparently staged by Israel to target the country's communications infrastructure, saying it will certainly follow up on the hostile scheme via international mechanisms. Hamid Fatahi, CEO of Irans Telecommunications Company, took to Twitter on Monday to report an attempt by ...

FNA - Iranian legislators have prepared a bill which requires the country's Armed Forces to develop plans, means and infrastructure for confronting possible US cyber attacks. "Given the Americans' bluffs alongside their threat of launching cyber attacks and cutting off Iran from the worldwide web, we have prepared a plan to confront the US threats,...

FNA - Head of Iran's Civil Defense Organization Brigadier General Gholamreza Jalali said that former US President Barack Obama was the first-ever president who ordered and acknowledged the responsibility for the cyber attacks against Iran's nuclear infrastructures. Operation Olympic Games was a covert and still unacknowledged campaign of sabotage ...

IRNA Iran's botnet has been attacked by an android malware on an open port, center for the computer monitoring said on Saturday. Computer emergency response coordination center, known as Maher, in a report has warned about abuse of the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) 5555 across the country, saying that researchers have found that the attacks to the service ...

MNA Irans Cyber Police Chief General Kamal Hadianfar said Sun. that there have been 296 serious attacks on the countrys vital infrastructures in 2017, 50% of which were launched from US and China. Speaking to reporters at a press conference on Sunday, Cyber Police Chief General Kamal Hadianfar said internet crimes have increased by 900 percent ...

Iran Front Page- IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Sunday, April 8, and picked headlines from 21 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The top story in all papers today was the growing rate of US dollar and other foreign currencies in Iran, and the ongoing efforts ...

IRNA Iran Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in a statement announced that unsuitable information dissemination of Maher Institute caused damage to Iranian internet service providers (ISP) during Friday cyber attack. 'Tonight [Friday] some Iranian data centers were targeted by a cyber attack,' Minister of Information and ...