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| Iran claims to thwart Stuxnet-style Israeli cyberattack |
| 2018-11-06 |
| [IsraelTimes] Information minister says a regime with ’a record of using cyber weapons’ attempted to damage communication infrastructure but ’returned empty-handed’ Iran accused Israel on Monday of launching a cyberattack against its communications systems, and said it thwarted the hostile effort. "A regime whose record in using cyber weapons is clear from cases such as Stuxnet has tried this time to damage Iran’s communication infrastructure," said Information Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi on his Twitter account. He was referring to the Stuxnet virus, discovered in 2010 and believed to have been engineered by Israel and the United States, which damaged nuclear facilities in Iran. "Thanks to vigilance of the technical teams, they returned empty-handed. We will follow up this hostile action through international forums," Jahromi said. His deputy, Hamid Fattahi, said technical teams had intercepted multiple attempts to infiltrate their systems early on Monday, which had been "strongly warded off." Last Wednesday, an Israeli TV report said that Iranian infrastructure and strategic networks had come under attack in the preceding few days by a computer virus similar to Stuxnet but "more violent, more advanced and more sophisticated," but that Israeli officials were refusing to discuss what role, if any, they may have had in the operation. |
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