Incidents in country:
5 incidents catalogued
A cyberattack against the shared communications infrastructure used by Bank Melli, Bank Saderat, Bank Tejarat and the Export Development Bank of Iran knocked ATMs, point-of-sale terminals and online banking offline, though officials said no customer data was accessed.
Predatory Sparrow compromised industrial control systems at three major Iranian steelmakers, halting production and — in CCTV footage the group released — causing a machine at Khouzestan Steel to spew molten metal and fire across the factory floor.
A cyberattack attributed to Predatory Sparrow disabled the system behind Iran's subsidized-fuel cards, knocking out payment at all 4,300 of the country's gas stations and hijacking highway billboards to taunt Supreme Leader Khamenei.
A previously unseen wiper named Meteor crippled Iran's national railway network, wiping computers across stations, halting and delaying hundreds of trains, and defacing departure boards with a number for travelers to call: the office of Supreme Leader Khamenei.
U.S. and Israeli intelligence services jointly developed and deployed Stuxnet — the first widely-known cyber weapon to cause physical damage. The worm targeted Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment facility and destroyed approximately 1,000 IR-1 centrifuges over 2009–2010.