CYBER ATTACKERS TARGETS IRANIAN INFRASTRUCTURE COMPANIES

PanARMENIAN.Net
October 3, 2012 – 17:27 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Cyber attackers have targeted Iranian infrastructure
and communications companies, disrupting the Internet across the
country, a state official was quoted as saying on Wednesday, Oct 3,
according to Reuters.

Iran, the world’s No. 5 oil exporter, has tightened cyber security
since its uranium enrichment centrifuges were hit in 2010 by
the Stuxnet computer worm, which Tehran believes was planted by
arch-adversaries Israel or the United States.

“Yesterday we had a heavy attack against the country’s infrastructure
and communications companies which has forced us to limit the
Internet,” Mehdi Akhavan Behabadi, secretary of the High Council of
Cyberspace, told the Iranian Labour News Agency.

“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,” he said. “All of these attacks have been organized. And they
have in mind the country’s nuclear, oil, and information networks.”

Israeli officials have threatened military action against the Islamic
Republic’s nuclear energy sites if Western sanctions on Tehran’s
banking and oil sectors do not persuade it to shelve its disputed
atomic program.

Western powers suspect Iran is trying to develop the means to produce
nuclear weapons. Tehran says it is enriching uranium only for civilian
energy.

Last month a commander in Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards said it
was prepared to defend itself in case of a “cyber war” and deemed it
more dangerous than a physical confrontation.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress