The Iranian Tasnim Agency quoted the head of the Communications Infrastructure Company, Amir Mohammadzadeh Lajordi, as saying that a major cyber attack targeting the Central Bank of Iran and other websites and platforms had been thwarted last night.
The Iranian official described the attack as "large," adding that the largest volume of foreign attacks has recently focused on banks, financial institutions, and telecommunications companies, and that "all of them have been thwarted."
Last October, hacking groups threatened to launch electronic attacks on institutions and officials in Iran in support of the anti-government protests.
previous attacks
In the past years, Iran has been the target of a number of cyber attacks.
An attack in October 2021 targeted subsidized fuel stations that stopped working, causing long queues at the stations.
In May 2020, the American Washington Post reported that Israel was behind an information attack on one of the two ports located in the city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran, in response to what the newspaper said was an Iranian cyberattack on Israeli civilian hydraulic facilities. .
In February of the same year, the Iranian Ministry of Communications announced that it had repelled a cyberattack targeting Internet service providers, which disrupted network communication for about an hour.
One of the most prominent cyber attacks that hit Iran dates back to September 2010, when the "Stuxnet" virus hit facilities associated with its nuclear program, which led to a series of malfunctions in centrifuges for uranium enrichment.
Iran accused the United States and Israel of being behind the attack, and a number of experts in the field of information security accused the American and Israeli intelligence services of masterminding it.