United States cyber attacks against Iranian targets have not been successful, Iran’s telecoms minister said on Monday, with reports that the Pentagon had launched a long-planned cyber attack in a bid to disable Iran’s rocket launch systems.
“Although they try hard, but have not carried out a successful attack,” Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, Iranian Minister for Information and Communications Technology, said (in local language) in a Tweet Monday when asked by media.
“Not an attach, but last year we neutralized 33 million attacks with the (national) firewall,” he added.
رسانهها از صحت حمله سایبری ادعایی به ایران پرسیدند. باید بگویم که مدتهاست ما با تروریسم سایبری -مثل استاکسنت- و یکجانبهگرایی-مثل تحریمها- مواجهیم. نه یک حمله، بلکه در سال گذشته ۳۳میلیون حمله را با سپر دژفا خنثی کردیم. حمله موفقی از آنها صورت نگرفته، هرچند تلاشهای زیادی میکنند
— MJ Azari Jahromi (@azarijahromi) June 24, 2019
Azari Jahromi called attacks on Iranian computer networks “cyber-terrorism”, referring to Stuxnet, the first publicly known example of a virus used to attack industrial machinery, which targeted Iran’s nuclear facilities in November 2007, Reuters reported.
Stuxnet, widely believed to have been developed by the United States and Israel, was discovered in 2010 after it was used to attack a uranium enrichment facility in the Iranian city of Natanz.
The United States has also accused Iran of stepping up cyber attacks.
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