Iran’s government says it shut down internet to protect against cyberattacks

At the beginning of this week, Virtually everyone in Iran lost access to the Internet Which was called “the nearest national internet blackout”.

At that time, it was not clear what happened or who was responsible for the shutdown, which is strictly limited to getting information about the ongoing war inside and outside the country as well as getting information about the ongoing war with Israel.

Now the Iranian government has confirmed that they have directed the shutdown to protect it from Israeli cybertacks.

“We have said earlier that we will definitely switch to a national internet and restrict internet access worldwide. Protection is our main concern, and we are seeing the country’s critical infrastructure and cybertacks on the bank’s effectiveness,” Iran’s official spokesman Fateme Moharani, said it was said. A local news storyThe “Many enemies are operated and controlled by the Internet and abundant information is exchanged. A cryptocurrency exchange was also hacked, and we decided to impose internet restrictions considering all these issues.”

By launching the Mahajrani Hacks Bank And Iranian cryptocurrency exchang nobitexThe In both cases, a group of hunters, Sparrow, demanded responsibility for a hacker (also known as “Gonzesh Darande” in Persian) and said it was attacking Iranian companies to hit the government. The hunter sparrow is a mysterious group that identifies as a group of Israelist hactists, which Iran has had a lot of success in disrupting the main servicesOpinion Gas station And Steel plantThe

Iranians suffer from internet shutdown every day in the midst of Israeli bombings.

Amir Rashidi, Cybercuity and Digital Rights Director of the Mian Group, told TechCrunch that his family had removed Tehran, because they lived in a surrounding that the Israeli government warned that it was going to be targeted.

“I haven’t heard from them in two days, but someone is supposed to update me. I hope everything is fine,” said Rashidi. This is not just the Internet. All kinds of communications have been cut from outside the country – even phone calls. If you try to call from the outside, the phone won’t be inside and you will hear a meaningless recorded message at the end “

Narimon Gharib, an Iranian activist and independent cyber-guy investigator living in the UK, has been able to get a small team online because they know how to use virtual private servers as proxy, “they may be lucky to connect their ADSL, because there are some disruptions on the network.”

“There are not many people who are able to get online online,” Garib told TechCrunch. “My friends are technology-wise, so they can bypass the restrictions but usually it is very difficult because we have a full internet shutdown in our country.”