Iran severs links with oil installations after malware attack

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Iran has employed a number of oil installations must disconnect after the network was attacked by malware. The websites of the oil ministry and the Iranian national oil company would be cracked.

That, reports the BBC. The malware would the internal computer system of the ministry of oil have been attacked, as well as the Iranian national oil company. The Iranian authorities would have decided to use the data connections with a number of oil installations as a precaution to disconnect it. Among other things, the oil terminal on the island of Kharg, good for 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, there would be no data connections.

The Iranian authorities claim that the malware is detected and defused before systems attacked. Also would the oil not necessarily, have encountered of how to disable data connections. Nevertheless, it would be the websites of the oil ministry and the national oil company offline are gone. It would also include the account details are captured by the attackers. Secret information about the Iranian olieprogramma, however, would not have been stolen, because these systems are not on the internet would be linked.

It is not clear which malware the oil companies have been attacked, but Iranian websites are a regular target of cyber attacks. In addition, the country has had to contend with Stuxnet, sophisticated malware that was aimed at sabotaging Iranian nuclear facilities.