Iran's oil platforms have been targeted by cyber attack by Israel and other nations but their operations have not been affected, an Iranian state oil official was quoted as saying Monday.
Iran
's oil
platforms have been targeted by cyber attack by
Israel
and
other nations but their operations have not been affected, an Iranian state oil
official was quoted as saying Monday.
The renewed security threats come after similar attacks on the country's
nuclear and hydrocarbon sector and add to mounting challenges to
Iran
's oil
industry as it faces declining production and exports under escalating
sanctions.
The semi-official Mehr news agency quoted Mohammad Reza Golshani, head of
information technology at the Iranian Offshore Oil Co., as saying there has
been "a new cyber attack on the information system of offshore facilities
in the last few weeks."
He said "an examination of the attacks showed they had been planned by the
Zionist regime [
Israel
] and
several other countries."
But he added "the separation of Intranet [internal] networks and the main
[Internet] network meant the offshore oil company remains secure."
In April,
Iran
's oil
sector wrestled earlier with alleged cyberattacks that began at the Oil
Ministry and spread to other industries.
The country's nuclear industry had already been hit by a virus in 2010 known as
Stuxnet, which targeted centrifuges, in what was widely believed to be an act
of foreign sabotage aimed at slowing
Tehran
's
progress toward building a nuclear weapon--although
Iran
denies it has such a goal.
Press reports have said
Israel
and
the
U.S.
were
behind the cyberattacks though neither have confirmed this.
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