Iran Police: No Data Leak in Friday Cyberattack
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An Iranian Cyber Police commander said a Friday night cyberattack on organizations across the world that also affected a number of Internet service providers in Iran has not led to any data leak or unauthorized access to information inside the country.
In comments on Saturday morning, Colonel Niknafs said the cyberattack has only disconnected or slowed internet services in Iran, but has not resulted in any data leak or unauthorized access.
The situation has returned to normal, the commander said, adding that necessary measures have been taken to prevent a repetition of such incidents.
Cisco Talos, the cyber-security division of American IT conglomerate Cisco, said Friday that hackers are abusing misconfigured Cisco switches to gain a point of entry into organizations across the world.
In Iran, Internet services and websites became out of reach due to a problem in the datacenters of a number of major internet service providers.
According to a security report from the Cisco Talos team, as many as 168,000 systems in the world may be affected by the flaw.