Coinciding with the explosion at Rajaei Port, Behzad Akbari, the CEO of Iranian regime’s Infrastructure Communications Company, announced a “massive and sophisticated cyberattack” against the country’s infrastructure, stating that the attacks had been identified and preventive measures had been taken.
On Monday, April 28, Akbari posted on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) that these large-scale attacks had occurred on Sunday, April 27.
The CEO of the Infrastructure Communications Company did not provide further details about the origin or objectives of the attacks but stated that the attacks had been identified through the efforts of security and technical teams.
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These attacks occurred one day after the fire and explosion at Rajaei Port in Bandar Abbas and the third round of negotiations between Iran’s regime and the United States.
The state-run technology news website Digiato, citing the latest report by the Infrastructure Communications Company, wrote: “The number of DDoS attacks doubled in the winter compared to the fall.”
The report stated: “Statistics show that while in the fall of 2024, the number of recorded attacks exceeded 57,000, this figure increased to 101,000 in the winter.”
This is not the first time that Iran’s regime’s infrastructure has been targeted by cyberattacks.
In the most recent instance of such attacks, earlier in April this year, a hacker group announced it had breached the customer database of Mobile Telecommunication Company of Iran (Hamrah-e Aval), the country’s largest mobile phone operator, and accessed the information of 30 million customers.
Cyberattacks targeting the servers of the Central Bank of Iran’s main system, 20 other banks, the presidential office, parliament systems, state broadcaster IRIB, the “MAHER” center affiliated with the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology, the fuel distribution network, Tehran Municipality, insurance companies, the Prisons Organization, and Evin Prison are among the cyberattacks that have targeted the infrastructure of Iranian regime in recent years.
These attacks have, in some cases, led to the paralysis of these institutions and organizations, or the theft, publication, or sale of their confidential information online.
