Iran has foiled a major cyber attack on its infrastructure that was launched by a foreign government, the country's telecoms minister said on Wednesday, two months after reports of a U.S. cyber operation against the country.
"We recently faced a highly organized and state-sponsored attack on our e-government infrastructure which was...repelled by the country's security shield," Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi, Iran's minister for communications and information technology, was quoted by the semi-official Mehr news agency as saying.
"It was a very big attack," Azari-Jahromi said, adding that details would be revealed later.