According to the Iranian officials, the website of Iran's Oil Ministry has come under a cyber attack but it couldn't harm the main data. Mehr reported, the Iranian Oil Ministry, the National Iranian Oil Company, and a number of other companies affiliated with the ministry, were targeted by a computer worm on Sunday, but the malware was detected ...

Iran's nuclear potential may have been significantly increased by the Stuxnet worm that is believed to have infectedthe country's uranium enrichment facility at Natanz in 2009 and 2010, new research claims. The report, published in the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) journal, claims the Stuxnet wormexposed vulnerabilities in Iranian enrichment ...

Key computer systems inIranhave again come under attack from a powerful malware that was first unleashed three years ago by the United States andIsraelto thwart Tehrans plans to develop nuclear weapons. Iranian officials blamed the Christmas Day attacks, which targeted computer systems at a power plant and other industries, as well as a Culture Ministry ...

(Reuters) - An Internet virus attackedcomputersat industrial sites in southernIran, in an apparent extension of a covert cyber war that initially targeted the country's nuclear facilities, an Iranian official said. Iran, the world's No. 5 oil exporter, has tightened online security since its uranium enrichment centrifuges were hit in 2010 by the Stuxnet ...