Oil terminal disconnected after ‘computer virus attack’

[sarwarmhaque]

Iran said yesterday that its oil industry had become the latest target of cyber-attacks by enemies of the Islamic republic.

Officials claimed that the oil ministry and the national oil company had been attacked by a computer virus reminiscent of the Stuxnet worm unleashed against Iran’s nuclear programme two years ago. The country’s main export terminal had been disconnected from the internet as a precaution, they added.

Nobody has claimed responsibility for the Stuxnet virus, but the regime has blamed Israel and the United States for that and for the recent assassinations of several nuclear scientists.

Source: Internet (Martin Fletcher, The Times)