Iran says it has successfully thwarted a wave of cyberattacks apparently staged by Israel to target the country's communications infrastructure, saying it will follow up on the “hostile” scheme via international mechanisms.
Hamid Fattahi, a senior official with the Telecommunications Infrastructure Company, took to Twitter on Monday to report an attempt by “an occupying regime” to launch “sporadic” cyber assaults against Iran’s communications infrastructure, referring to the Israeli regime, Press TV reported.
All the attacks, he added, “were firmly foiled”.
Shortly afterward, Telecoms Minister Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi re-posted Fattahi’s tweet and said, “The regime—with a notorious background in using cyber weapons in cases such as Stuxnet—was this time attempting to harm Iran’s communications infrastructure.”