Iran's oil ministry and its affiliates have come under a "cyber attack" and a specialized team has been assembled to confront it, Iranian media reported Monday.
Iran
's oil
ministry and its affiliates have come under a "cyber attack" and a
specialized team has been assembled to confront it, Iranian media reported
Monday.
The Mehr news agency reported that the oil ministry website, as well as that of
the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), were targeted from Sunday.
Quoting a civil defense official at the ministry, it said a "cyber crisis
committee" was established to fend off the attack.
A ministry spokesman, Alireza Nikzad, told the
Fars
news
agency the attack was a "virus" which "attempted to delete data
on oil ministry servers."
The ISNA news agency, identifying the virus as "Viper," said the
attack had deleted data off the servers. The ministry spokesman, however, said
"essential data" were unharmed.
"The cyber attack has not harmed essential data of the oil ministry and
the NIOC because the main servers are not connected to public servers,"
Nikzad said, adding that data was available on off-line servers.
He did not give further details.
The Internet websites of the oil ministry (
www.mop.ir
) and
the NIOC (
www.nioc.ir
) appeared to be inaccessible Monday.
Iran
in
2010 was the target of a massive cyber attack by a highly sophisticated worm
called Stuxnet that penetrated at least 30,000 computers across the country and
seemed to specifically target machines linked to centrifuges carrying out
uranium enrichment.
Many international experts believe the virus was developed by the
U.S.
,
possibly with Israeli collaboration, to disrupt
Iran
's
disputed nuclear program.
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