Jerusalem Post reports that the Iranian government made the news of attacks official when the incident started getting heat on social media. Another news agency said that the attacks had damaged Iranian ports' electronic infrastructures. Radio Farda, a US-funded agency, says that the attack targets are likely to be Iran's ports, banks, and maritime organizations; the news, however, isn't confirmed. Tasnim, a quasi-official news outlet, reports that the country's spokesperson said the 'nation's sworn enemies carried out the cyberattacks.'
According to the Jerusalem Post, "Iranian Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi claimed that its security shield repelled two of the three attacks in December. Jahromi claimed that the Islamic Republic's national cybersecurity wall, known as Digital Fortress or Dezhfa, helped thwart 33 million cyberattacks against the country in 2019, according to Fars News Service." In a similar attack happened last year, it reported "Intelligence and cybersecurity officials familiar with the incident told the Post that the attack was carried out by "Israeli operatives," possibly in retaliation for an earlier cyber attack on Israel's civilian water system."
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