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Minister: Iran repels major foreign cyber attack

11 December 2019 23:19 (UTC +04:00)

Iranian Minister of Communication and Information Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said the country has managed to foil a very big organized cyber attack on the electronic infrastructure, APA reports citing Tasnim.

“We (recently) faced a highly organized attack on the e-government infrastructure,” Azari Jahromi told reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet session in Tehran on Wednesday.

The major attack was repelled by the country’s security shield known as the Dejfa firewall, he added.

In a post on his Twitter account back in June, Azari Jahromi said the country had managed to thwart about 33 million cyber-attacks against its sensitive sites last year.

“Last year, we neutralized not a single strike but 33 million attacks with the Dejfa firewall,” he wrote, stressing that the US tries hard but has not carried out a successful attack.