Iran has foiled a cyberattack on its central bank, the country's telecommunications infrastructure company said on January 6. Anonymous and other global hacking groups threatened in October to launch cyberattacks on Iranian institutions and officials in support of anti-government protests and to bypass Internet censorship there. Amir Mohammadzadeh Lajevardi, head of the Infrastructure Communications Company, said the central bank was targeted by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on January 5, the official IRNA news agency quoted him as saying. DDoS attacks attempt to cripple servers by overwhelming them with Internet traffic. The central bank said in September that a cyberattack briefly took its website offline. To read the original story from Reuters, click here.
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