Iran announces that it has foiled a cyberattack against its Central Bank


Samir Rahmoun

January 06, 2023 at 6:05 p.m.

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Iran reportedly managed to thwart a cyberattack that targeted its Central Bank.

Tehran has become the favorite target of many groups for several months, because of the violent suppression of uprisings in the country.

A DDoS attack against the Central Bank

What’s going on in cyberspace? In a matter of days, we have seen Iran protest against cartoons that appeared in Charlie Hebdo, then the French newspaper suffer an intrusion. From now on, it is this Middle Eastern country itself that would be the target of cyber attacks.

The information was revealed by the boss of the company in charge of all the country’s telecommunications infrastructure, Amir Mohammadzadeh Lajevardi. According to him, the National Central Bank would have been the subject of a denial of service attack (DDoS), the objective of which is to saturate a server by the multiplication of requests in order to make it crash.

Also according to this source, the Iranian technical teams managed to thwart the offensive. Another cyberattack had already caused the bank’s website to be briefly taken offline last September.

Iran, object of many attacks

Iran has been shaken by numerous violently repressed riots since the death, on September 16, of the young Mahsa Amini, who had been arrested and detained by the morality police. In addition to police interventions, the authorities are trying to suppress the revolt by hindering communications on the Net.

On the other side of the borders, many hacker groups have taken action to weaken the foundations of the state. ” In recent days, the greatest volume of foreign attacks, which have been repelled, have taken place against banks and financial institutions, Internet service providers and communication infrastructures. explains Amir Mohammadzadeh Lajevardi.

Moreover, the Iranians see the means to pass beyond the limits imposed by the authorities multiplying. Starlink’s services are gradually starting to become available, while WhatsApp now offers a feature to bypass censorship.

Source : Reuters



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