After Trump halt air strikes against Iraq, but agreed to carry out cyber attacks on Iran news, the Iranian government official, responded 24th, the United States of this action did not succeed. Reuters reported on the 24th, the Iranian Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mohamed Jia Hami tweeted the same day, said: "The United States is trying to launch a cyber attack on Iran, but failed."
Guha Mi also wrote on Twitter; "US media had asked us to launch cyber war against Iran is true, for a long time, we have been facing the threat of cyber-terrorism, last year alone, our network protection wall prevents 33 million time network attack. "
Jia Hami the US cyber attack on Iran as "cyber-terrorism", he also referred to the "Stuxnet" virus Stuxnet.
Reuters said it was a widely regarded as the United States and Israel developed computer viruses. The most known case is the outside world, as early as 2010, the United States had used the "Stuxnet" virus massive destruction of Iran's nuclear facilities, computer network systems.
22, "New York Times" reported that, although Trump canceled the original military strike on Iran, but he approved a cyber attack on Iran. It reported that the reason the United States do so because they want to, without the use of force against Iran "attack."
Informed sources, the United States has been prepared for this cyber attacks for several weeks, the ultimate purpose is to attack tankers this month, US drone was shot down this week and make a direct response to the event.
Personnel participating in the operation, told reporters, multiple computer systems are set targets, including some Iranian intelligence organizations believed to be involved in planning attacks on oil tankers. In addition, some Iranian missile launch control computer system has also been used as the object of attack.
The two officials told the Associated Press correspondent, the hacker attack Iran control computer system rocket and missile launchers paralysis, and has been approved by Trump. In addition, all staff are interviewed anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the operation.