Iran's president says cyberattack meant to create 'disorder'
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's president is saying that a cyberattack that shut down gas stations across the nation aimed to get “people angry by creating disorder and disruption.”
Ebrahim Raisi's comments, the first since Tuesday's attack, did not blame anyone specifically for the incident.
However, he suggested anti-Iranian forces were behind the cyberattack.
He said: “There should be serious readiness in the field of cyberwar and related bodies should not allow the enemy to follow their ominous aims to make problem in trend of people’s life.”
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack that began Tuesday, though it bore similarities to another months earlier that seemed to directly challenge Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the country’s economy buckles under American sanctions.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A cyberattack in Iran affected all of the Islamic Republic's 4,300 gas stations, a senior official said, as some still faced problems Wednesday.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack that began Tuesday, though it bore similarities to another months earlier that seemed to directly challenge Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the country’s economy buckles under American sanctions.
Abolhassan Firouzabadi, the secretary of the Supreme Council of Cyberspace, linked the attack to another that targeted Iran's rail system in July, in comments reported by the state-run IRNA news agency.
“There is a possibility that the attack, like a previous one on railway system, has been conducted from abroad," Firouzabadi said.
He added that an investigation into the incident was underway.
On Wednesday...