Iran says it staved off cyber attack but doesn't blame US

Iran says it staved off cyber attack but doesn't blame US

Here's a rundown of some of the Middle East's cyber argy-bargy


Iran claims to have staved off a major cyber attack on its national infrastructure, a couple of months after the Middle Eastern theocracy was blamed for real-world assaults on two Saudi oil refineries.


"We recently faced a highly organized and state-sponsored attack on our e-government infrastructure which was successfully identified and repelled by the country's security shield," Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi, Iran's ICT minister, was quoted as saying yesterday.


He specifically did not blame a particular country, adding: "I can't say the attack was carried out by which country right now."


Separately, the United Nations said yesterday it couldn't tell whether or not the Islamic Republic was involved in two attacks which used military drones and missiles to destroy parts of Saudi Arabia's Abqaiq oil-processing facility and the Khurais oilfield.


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