Iran says cyberattack closes gas stations across country

DUBAI – Iranian authorities tv says a cyberattack has targeted state stations crossed the Islamic Republic.

The announcement work connected aerial comes aft agelong lines formed astatine stations successful Tehran and elsewhere Tuesday.

State TV quoted an authoritative with Iran's National Security Council confirming the attack.

Oil Ministry officials were holding an “emergency meeting” to lick the method problem.

No radical instantly claimed work for the outage. However, physics billboards successful 1 large metropolis besides appeared to person been targeted successful the hack.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier communicative follows below.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Gas stations crossed Iran connected Tuesday suffered done a wide outage of a authorities strategy managing substance subsidies, stopping income successful an incidental that 1 semiofficial quality bureau concisely referred to arsenic a cyberattack.

An Iranian authorities tv relationship online shared images of agelong lines of cars waiting to capable up successful Tehran. An Associated Press writer besides saw lines of cars astatine a Tehran state station, with the pumps disconnected and the presumption closed.

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State TV did not explicate what the contented was, but said Oil Ministry officials were holding an “emergency meeting” to lick the method problem.

The semiofficial ISNA quality agency, which called the incidental a cyberattack, said it saw those trying to bargain substance with a government-issued paper done the machines alternatively person a connection speechmaking “cyberattack 64411.” Most Iranians trust connected those subsidies to substance their vehicles, peculiarly amid the country's economical problems.

While ISNA didn't admit the number's significance, that fig is associated to a hotline tally done the bureau of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that handles questions astir Islamic law. ISNA aboriginal removed its reports.

Farsi-language outer channels overseas published videos seemingly changeable by drivers successful Isfahan, a large Iranian city, showing physics billboards determination reading: “Khamenei! Where is our gas?” Another said: “Free state successful Jamaran state station,” a notation to the location of the precocious Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

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No radical instantly claimed work for the outage. However, the usage of the fig “64411” mirrored an onslaught successful July targeting Iran's railroad strategy that besides saw the fig displayed. Israeli cybersecurity steadfast Check Point aboriginal attributed the bid onslaught to a radical of hackers that called themselves Indra, aft the Hindu deity of war.

Indra antecedently targeted firms successful Syria, wherever President Bashar Assad has held onto powerfulness done Iran's involution successful his country's grinding war.

Iran has faced a bid of cyberattacks, including 1 that leaked video of abuses its notorious Evin situation successful August.

The state disconnected overmuch of its authorities infrastructure from the net aft the Stuxnet machine microorganism — wide believed to beryllium a associated U.S.-Israeli instauration — disrupted thousands of Iranian centrifuges successful the country’s atomic sites successful the precocious 2000s.

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