The United States and other Western powers have accused Iran of hacking.
The Iranian Civil Defense chief on Saturday accused Israel and the United States of being responsible for a possible cyberattack that disrupted petrol sales in Iran in recent days, assuring that an investigation was underway.
“We are still not able to say for sure, but I believe it was achieved by the Zionist regime, the Americans and their agents,” said Gholamreza Jalali, head of Civil Defense in charge of cybersecurity. , on state television.
Iran has said in recent years that it is on high alert for attacks it blames on its sworn enemies, the United States and Israel.
The United States and other Western powers have meanwhile accused Iran of trying to disrupt and break into their computer networks.
Separately, Iranian hacker group Black Shadow claimed on Friday that it had hacked into the servers of Israeli internet hosting company Cyberserve, disabling several websites and threatening to leak user information.
The cyberattack left the sites hosted on Cyberserve of public transport companies Dan and Kavim, serving Tel Aviv, the Holon Children’s Museum, and the public radio’s online blog, inaccessible.
Black Shadow also made available on Telegram what it presented as the customer file, including the names, e-mails and telephone numbers of users of the Kavim company.
The fuel distribution system was partially restored on Friday, three days after a large-scale cyberattack.
Of the country’s 4,300 service stations, “at present, 1,450 are connected to the central fuel distribution system,” said Fatemeh Kahi, public relations director of the Iranian National Petroleum Products Distribution Company.
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