Stuxnet Virus Attack Iran Computers

A sophisticated computer virus named Stuxnet had attacked 30 thousand internet service provider or internet provider that the target is Iran's nuclear power industry. As stated by cyber security expert, on Sunday (26 / 9).

The virus is suspected of deliberately created by an organization sponsored by Israel and the United States. Virus attack last Saturday has raised speculation that Israel and the U.S. is deliberately sabotaging a nuclear facility.

According to senior officials in the U.S. technology company, Symantec, about 60 percent of computers worldwide are infected by the virus Stuxnet are in Iran. The attack did not affect the system at the facility. But, the virus that managed to hit the computer staff at the facilities and internet service providers.

Reza Taqipour, Iran's Minister of Telecommunications, told the newspaper Iran Daily that the virus has not been able to penetrate or cause serious damage to government systems. "There is already a team assigned to examine some of the computer and remove malware. And the main system is not broken," said Mahmoud Jafari, a spokesman for the official news agency IRNA.

The diplomats and the security forces, said U.S. and Israeli sabotage this as one way to deter Iran's nuclear work, which feared the U.S. also aims to build nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, the Tehran government insists it needs nuclear technology to generate power.

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