Iranian hackers have reportedly taken down widely-used Israeli websites.
The Black Shadow group said Friday that it had broken into the servers of Israeli internet hosting company Cyberserve, circulating a message on social media:
Hello Again! We have news for you. You probably could not connect to many websites today.
“Cyberserve’ company and their customers [were] hit by us. You may ask what about Data? As always, we have lots of it. If you don’t want your Data leaked by us, contact us soon.
Cyberserve’s customers include the Dan and Kavim public transportation companies, the Children’s Museum, the Pegasus travel company, and the Kan public broadcaster.
The attack came three days after Iranian petrol stations were paralyzed for hours by a cyber-operation which blocked online transactions. Other Iranian infrastructure such as transport was targeted in July.
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On Tuesday, a group of hackers called Moses Staff published the private details of hundreds of Israel Defense Forces personnel and thousands of teenagers nearing enlistment age. The material on the dark web included personal photographs of Defense Minister Benny Gantz, one of which showed him pretending to milk a statue of a cow.
Black Shadow stole information from Israeli insurance company Shirbit last year, selling it on the dark web when the firm refused to pay a ransom. Those affected by release of personal and financial details included the president of the Tel Aviv District Court and an employee at the Israeli President’s Residence.
Microsoft said this month that Iranian hackers have quadrupled their operations against Israeli sites this year.
Iranwire has a report which involves a dispute by two Iranian doctors over whether to import the American-developed vaccines: https://iranwire.com/en/special-features/10579
“As mentioned, despite an increase in vaccine imports, the only vaccine widely available in Iran is Sinopharm. Other consignments of vaccines including AstraZeneca and the Russian-made Sputnik V are mostly earmarked for people’s second doses.
Mahboubfar believes that based on the sluggish early pace and the quality of the vaccines now on offer, a “repeat” vaccination process – starting all over again – is inevitable: “Repeat vaccination would mean that the health policies of the Islamic Republic have failed, and the country must negotiate with the world to import high-quality vaccines such as Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson.”
Dr. Shervin Shokouhi, however, is against the idea. “All the vaccines are aimed at reducing fatalities and all the existing vaccines do this. We must the use currently-available vaccines to stop the virus. No matter how many times we change them, the virus will change as well. We have to vaccinate, and it’s meaningless to complain as to why we are not using Pfizer. The important thing is the vaccination itself.”
Varharan,
That’s a striking distortion of the Iran Wire article, given that its main point is the questionable efficacy of the Chinese vaccine: “Iranian Study Casts More Doubt on Sinopharm Vaccine”
“Most of the doses administered in Iran have also been the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine. According to a new study conducted in Fars province, the vaccine’s efficacy in preventing against severe Covid-19 is significantly below par.
The province’s Health Policy Research Center, which is affiliated with the state-run Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, took in a sample of 380,000 residents of Fars province who had received a full course of Sinopharm. It found the vaccine was five percent effective at stopping new infections, 55.8 percent effective in preventing hospitalization and 65 percent in preventing fatalities.”
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raisi can’t string up ONE sentence in any language(including arabic) that anyone (including regime stooges) understand. Never mind managing crisis.
Iran’s Covid deaths fall to 128: https://en.irna.ir/news/84523025/COVID-19-kills-128-more-Iranians-over-past-24-hours
The Raisi adminstration has managed to reduce the number of daily deaths from a peak of 709 in early August to less than a fifth of that.
Amazing what happens when a country’s leadership finally allows distribution of vaccines….