Iran uncovered, busted CIA-run cyber-espionage network: Security chief
Tehran (KNA) - Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani says the country’s intelligence apparatus has successfully discovered and dealt a serious blow to a cyber-espionage network, which was run by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and operated in a number of countries.
"The United States is engaged in extraterritorial cyber attacks to show Russia and other countries that they would pay a price for [their alleged] interference in America's affairs," Shamkhani said on the threshold of the 10th International Meeting of High Representatives for Security Issues, scheduled to be held in the Russian city of Ufa on June 18-20.
"It is interesting to know that one of the most complicated cyber networks run by the CIA in the area of cyber-espionage, which accounted for a major part of the CIA's operational capacity in target countries, has been uncovered by Iran's intelligence apparatus and [a serious] blow has been dealt to it," Iran's top security official said, adding that more details on the discovery will be soon released by Iran's Ministry of Intelligence.
Source: PressTV