TEHRAN (Dispatches) - Iran's communications and information technology ministry has announced that a home-made anti-virus software named 'Padovish' has blocked the WannaCry virus to affect the country's computer systems.
"The Ransomeware virus which has massively attacked the adjacent countries' systems was identified by the home-made Padvish anti-ransomware-virus and the systems which had installed the anti-virus have not been harmed," the ministry said.
Eearlier, the head of Iran's Civil Defense Organization Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali said that the U.S. intelligence services are to blame for the WannaCry virus that affected tens of thousands of computers worldwide last week.
"The preliminary studies have indicated that the virus has originated from the US and is related to the US intelligence agency, and the US has not been harmed in the (virus) attack," Jalali said on Wednesday.
Stressing that the ransomware virus showed that cyber threat is a serious issue, he advised the internet users to install the Iranian anti-ransomware-virus software to remain safe from its attacks.