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A recent massive cyberattack involving wiper malware Meteor was successful in destroying Iran’s national rail infrastructure as well as the ministry of transportation’s website, resulting in significant train service interruptions throughout the country, according to The Hacker News.
On July 9, the Iranian train system was rendered obsolete as a result of a massive attack with passengers advised to register complaints with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose phone number was displayed. Needless to say that the incident has caused extreme chaos at train terminals, resulting in the cancellation or delay of hundreds of trains.
According to experts of Iranian antivirus company SentinelOne and Amn Pardaz, the campaign dubbed MeteorExpress wasn’t tied to any previously detected threat groups or attacks. Although Meteor is thought to have been at work in the last three y…
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