Cyberattackers Targeting Iranian Infrastructure and Communications Companies

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Cyberattackers Targeting Iranian Infrastructure and Communications Companies

By CircleID Reporter
October 03, 2012, 8:22 pm PDT Views: 5,147 Add Comment

Internet based attacks have targeted Iranian infrastructure and communications companies, disrupting Internet access across the country, according to today’s reports. Country’s secretary of the High Council of Cyberspace, has been quoted telling the Iranian Labour News Agency: “Yesterday we had a heavy attack against the country’s infrastructure and communications companies which has forced us to limit the Internet. ... Presently we have constant cyber attacks in the country. Yesterday an attack with a traffic of several gigabytes hit the Internet infrastructure, which caused an unwanted slowness in the country’s Internet. ... All of these attacks have been organized. And they have in mind the country’s nuclear, oil, and information networks.”

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