Iran repels cyber attack

Iranian Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said that a major cyberattack against the infrastructures of Iran’s e-government has been successfully repelled.

"Recently, a highly organized and state-sponsored cyberattack was carried out against our e-government infrastructures, which was successfully identified and repelled by the country’s cyber security shield," Mehr news cited the minister as saying.

"The attack was really massive," Jahromi said, adding he can’t disclose any details right now.