{"id":78214,"date":"2019-12-15T18:24:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T23:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/?p=78214"},"modified":"2019-12-15T18:24:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T23:24:11","slug":"iran-says-its-defused-2nd-cyberattack-in-less-than-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2019\/12\/15\/iran-says-its-defused-2nd-cyberattack-in-less-than-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Says it’s Defused 2nd Cyberattack in Less Than a Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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VOA – TEHRAN, IRAN – Iran\u2019s telecommunications minister announced on Sunday that the country has defused a second cyberattack in less than a week, this time \u201caimed at spying on government intelligence.\u201d Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said in a short Twitter post that the alleged attack was \u201cidentified and defused by a cybersecurity shield,\u201d and that the \u201dspying servers were identified and the hackers were also tracked.\u201d He did not elaborate. Last Wednesday, Jahromi told the official IRNA news agency that a \u201cmassive\u201d and \u201cgovernmental\u201d cyberattack also targeted Iran\u2019s electronic infrastructure. He provided no specifics on the purported attack except to say it was also defused and that a report would be released.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the minister dismissed reports of hacking operations targeting Iranian banks, including local media reports that accounts of millions of customers of Iranian banks were hacked.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time Iran says it has defused a cyberattack, though it has disconnected much of its infrastructure from the internet after the Stuxnet computer virus, widely believed to be a joint U.S.-Israeli creation, disrupted thousands of Iranian centrifuges in the country\u2019s nuclear sites in the late 2000s.<\/p>\n

In June, Washington officials said that U.S. military cyber forces launched a strike against Iranian military computer systems as President Donald Trump backed away from plans for a more conventional military strike in response to Iran\u2019s downing of a U.S. surveillance drone in the strategic Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n

Tensions have escalated between the U.S. and Iran ever since President Donald Trump withdrew America last year from the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran and began a policy of \u201cmaximum pressure.\u201d Iran has since been hit by multiple rounds of sanctions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOA – TEHRAN, IRAN – Iran\u2019s telecommunications minister announced on Sunday that the country has defused a second cyberattack in less than a week, this time \u201caimed at spying on government intelligence.\u201d Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said in a short Twitter post that the alleged attack was \u201cidentified and defused by a cybersecurity shield,\u201d and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}