Iranian Oil Ministry repels cyber attacks

TEHRAN,June 23(MNA) – Cyber attackers targeted the Iranian Oil Ministry and its subsidiary, the National Iranian Oil Company, on Friday but their attacks have been repelled. On Friday, “an unknown group launched a series of cyber attacks against the main websites of the Iranian Oil Ministry and the National Iranian Oil Company, which stopped the virtual activities of the main websites of the Iranian Oil Ministry and the National Iranian Oil Company and a number of their affiliated websites,” the report said. It added, “Since noon yesterday, the Internet of the workers and managers of parts of the Iranian Oil Ministry and the National Iranian Oil Company has been down, but hackers failed to access confidential and classified information of the Oil Ministry due to the high level of security.”