TEHRAN -- A cyberattack against Iranian private airline Mahan Air has been foiled, Iranian media reported on Sunday, adding that the airliner’s flight schedule was not affected by the attack.
The carrier, the nation’s second largest airline after Iran Air, said in a statement that it had faced similar attacks in the past, adding that its “internal system” had been targeted.
“Our international and domestic flights are operating on schedule without any disruptions,” Amirhussein Zolanvari, head of the airliner’s public relation office, said.
Iran has blamed previous cyberattacks on the United States and the occupying regime of Israel, including accusing the two regimes of being behind a cyberattack that targeted gasoline stations across the Middle Eastern nation last month.
“We are still unable to say forensically, but analytically I believe it was carried out by the Zionist Regime, the Americans, and their agents,” Gholamreza Jalali, head of civil defense, said of the gas stations attack.
Before that, another cyberattack had hit the systems of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways.
Iran’s Supreme Council of Cyberspace said last month that the cyberattacks were possibly carried out from abroad.
The occupying regime of Israel is believed to have targeted Iran’s strategic infrastructure, including nuclear facilities.
Earlier, Fars News published personal information it had obtained about a senior Israeli officer who was engaged in cyberattacks against Iranian targets.
Earlier this year, an act of sabotage caused a power outage at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility. The attack, condemned by Iran as “nuclear terrorism”, was widely attributed to the Zionist regime, which is backed by the U.S.