An Israeli daily claims that a group of elite hackers that it introduces as Iranians have advanced as far asIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus office and the regimes major aerospace company. Haaretz ran the report on Monday, saying the group that emerged no earlier than November has so far attacked scores of Israeli targets, including at ...

AP Irans telecommunications minister announced on Sunday that the country has defused a second cyberattack in less than a week, this time aimed at spying on government intelligence. Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said in a short Twitter post that the alleged attack was identified and defused by a cybersecurity shield, and that the spying servers ...

Press TV - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the United States has already initiated a cyber war against Iran, but itcould not "finish" a full-fledgedwar if it startedone against the country. In an interview with NBC's "Meet The Press," which will air in full on Sunday,Zarif referred to Stuxnet, a malicious computer worm that is ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Iran showing maximum restraint despite US exit from nuclear deal: Zarif In a visit to Japan, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarifsays Tehran is showing maximum restraint in the face of the United States unilateral exit from the 2015 nuclear deal and the unacceptable re-imposition ...

Reuters - Iran has developed software to protect its industry against the Stuxnet computer virus, the Iranian communications minister said on Thursday, after accusing Israel in November of a cyber attack on Tehrans telecommunications facilities. Stuxnet, which is widely believed to have been developed by the United States and Israel, was discovered ...

FNA- Iran's Communications and Information Technology Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi dismissed allegations that the country launches cyber attacks against other states with the help of an organized cyber army, and condemned any move that disrupts people's everyday life in any part of the world. "We are every day witnessing cyber attacks by ...

RT - Malicious computer malware that caused substantial damage to Irans nuclear program may be the work of the NSA, researchers burrowing into the latest leak from hacking group Shadow Brokers have discovered within the computer data. A tool found in Fridays leak matched one used by the notorious Stuxnet malware. First detected in 2010, Stuxnet ...

Sputnik- Retired Gen. James Cartright has been pardoned for making untrue statements to US federal investigators, outgoing President Barack Obama announced. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) Cartright, a former vice chairman ofthe US Joints Chiefs ofStaff, was pardoned forleaking information aboutthe US cyber operation that implanted the Stuxnet virus intoIran's ...

Press TV- Irans top nuclear official says the 2011 cyber attack by the US and Israel against the Iranian nuclear energy program worked against their intended objectives and helped improve the Islamic Republics readiness against such acts of sabotage. The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Ali Akbar Salehi, said the deployment ...

Washington Post| Alyssa Rosenberg- When Alex Gibney released Zero Days, his movie about the Stuxnet program that slowed Irans nuclear development, this year, his portrait of the unsettled state of cyberwarfare was already unnervingly relevant. But in the months since, the Democratic National Committee suffered a severe hack, a massivedistributed denial ...

The US National Security Agency, considered the worlds most advanced electronic espionage and surveillance group, has been hacked. An anonymous group ofhackers calling itself the Shadow Brokers says it breached the networks ofthe world's most advanced spying agency, the NSA. The hacker group claimed Monday that it extracted software used bythe NSA ...

In the follow-up to the recently released documentary Zero Days by Alex Gribney on the Stuxnet worm, a terrifying and groundbreaking virus jointly created by the US and Israel against Iranian nuclear technologies, one Iranian expert on regional security reassured Sputnik that the virus no longer poses a threat to his home country. Alex Gribneys recent ...

Iran says it has never reciprocated cyber attacks with counter raids, although it has been a victim of such illegal attacksin the past years. Iran has never responded to these illegal attacks with reciprocal cyber attacks, IransForeign Ministry spokesman Hossein JaberiAnsari said on Friday. He also noted that the Islamic Republic has been ...

France 24 quoted AFP as saying, Iran is busy acquiring the technical know-how to launch a potentially crippling cyberattack on the United States and its allies, experts told a congressional hearing on Thursday, urging the US to step up its defensive measures. "Over the past three years, the Iranian regime has invested heavily in both defensive and ...

According to the Iranian officials, the website of Iran's Oil Ministry has come under a cyber attack but it couldn't harm the main data. Mehr reported, the Iranian Oil Ministry, the National Iranian Oil Company, and a number of other companies affiliated with the ministry, were targeted by a computer worm on Sunday, but the malware was detected ...

Cyber space has pervaded the social, economic, and political aspects of our lives. The essence of this ubiquitous, fast-growing phenomenon and its genius lies in the universal power of the simple 1s and 0s. The exponential growth of its penetration has fostered a wild explosion of what is called cyber espionage, or cyber attack. Such operations, like ...

[caption id="attachment_90993" align="alignright" width="180"] Irans former head of Atomic Energy Organisation Fereydoon Abbasi. On 29 November 2010, Abbasi survived an terror attempt. A separate bomb attack the same day killed another scientist, Dr. Majid Shahriari.[/caption] Nasim Senior Iranian nuclear scientist Fereydoon Abbasi, who was appointedas ...

Speculation has it that Iran wants to pursue legal action against the US-Israeli led Stuxnet cyberattack. If the rumors prove to be true, Irans case against the United States could give the international community a great opportunity to use the case as needed momentum towards setting official international regulations on cyberwarfare. Arguably, the ...

The Stuxnet worm that attacked Iran's nuclear facility at Natanz came to light nearly four years ago, but how it got there remains a mystery. A possible new explanation, outlined Tuesday, cites the supply chain as the key. One enduring mystery aboutStuxnet, the first cyberweapon the world has known, is this: Just how did that digital missile infiltrateIrans ...

Saudi Arabia and Israels Mossad intelligence division are co-conspiring to produce a computer worm more destructive than the Stuxnet malware to sabotage Irans nuclear program, according to a report from the semi-official Iranian Fars news agency. Saudi spy chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and director of Israels Mossad intelligence ...