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Iran 'foils second cyber-attack in a week'

posted onDecember 16, 2019
by l33tdawg
BBC
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Iran has foiled a second cyber-attack in less than a week, the country's telecommunications minister says.

Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi announced on Twitter that the cyber-attack had targeted Iranian electronic government systems. The minister did not give details. A similar claim was made about Wednesday's "massive" attack.

In June this year, Iran's weapons systems came under a cyber-attack, US media reports suggested. Mr Jahromi said a cybersecurity project known as the "Dejfa fortress" had managed to thwart the attack which had used the "well-known APT27" - which experts have linked to Chinese-speaking hackers. Without giving further details, the minister said servers and hackers had been "tracked".

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