Iran foils apparent Israeli cyber attacks on communication infrastructure
Tehran (KNA) - 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 Iran's Telecommunications Company, took to Twitter on Monday to report an attempt by "an occupying regime" to launch "sporadic" cyber assaults against the Islamic Republic's communications infrastructure, in reference to the regime in Tel Aviv.
All the attacks, he added, "were firmly foiled."
"They showed to the Int'l community that their accusation against Iran for #CyberAttacks was just a ridiculous delusion. Remember Stuxnet," Fatahi added in a consecutive tweet, saying defeating the attackers had been such an easy feat for Iranian experts.
Shortly afterwards, Iranian Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi re-posted Fatahi's tweet and said, "The regime - with a notorious background in using cyber weapons in cases such as Stuxnet - was this time attempting to harm Iran's communications infrastructure."
"[But] they had to go away empty-handed thanks to the vigilance of our technical teams," said the minister. "We will pursue this hostile move through international tribunals."
Israel is widely believed to be behind a cyber attack on the Iranian nuclear energy program that took place in 2011.
The Washington Post reported in June 2012 that US spy services and Israel's military had worked together to launch the Stuxnet computer virus against a uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, Iran.
It was the first publicly known example of a virus being used to attack industrial machinery.
Source: PressTV