The Netblocks group, an International Activity Observatory on the Internet, collected data from the metrics, where they observed that Iran remains without connection. They are already “24 hours since Iran imposed an Internet blackout throughout the country,” the report details.
“The ongoing blackout incident It is the most serious tracked from the protests of November 2019 and impacts the public’s ability to stay connected at a time when communications are vital, “according to this organization.
Iran has been without internet for 24 hours, after the authorities’s decision
The authorities decreed on Wednesday afternoon a blackout “under the argument of the misuse of Israel for its military ends,” according to Netblock.
The IRNA agency indicated yesterday through his social networks that “The Israeli enemy launched wide cyber attacks on the Iranmost rejected, but led to disruption in the supply of services in two banks in the country. “
The state media and the official pages of the Government stopped appearing at least in the Internet search engines, although several of them, including IRNA, were able to continue publishing content on their social networks.
The organization IODAwho follows the behavior of the Internet and is linked to the American University Georgia Techhe pointed out in Mastodon that the almost total blackout began at 5:00 p.m. local time (13.30 GMT) yesterday with a fall in all networks.
Israel hacked the transmission of Iran state television
Half Iranian assured that Israel temporarily hacked the transmission of state television With images of women’s protests urging people to go to the streets, which actually corresponded to 2022.
Through its Telegram channel, the local newspaper Hamshahri He shared a video of the brief interruption with a text that said: “Computer pirates infiltrated state television and broadcast A call asking people to go to the streets“
The Times of Israel, He pointed out that Iranian state television subsequently warned the viewers that this was “to cyber attacks carried out by the Zionist enemy that are interrupting satellite transmission. “
For his part, Israel’s spokesman before the United Nations, Jonathan Haroounoff, He also shared a clip of television interruption and although he recognized hacking, He did not attribute it to his country.
The clip apparently contained 2022 images during mass protests against the government for the death of Mahsa Amini, A woman arrested by the country’s moral police.
Source: Ambito
