Patriotic hackers attacked Iran and left screens with the image of an American flag today.
Hackers have attacked networks in a number of countries including data centres in Iran where they left the image of a U.S. flag on screens along with a warning “Don’t mess with our elections”, the Iranian IT ministry said on Saturday.
“The attack apparently affected 200,000 router switches across the world in a widespread attack, including 3,500 switches in our country,” the Communication and Information Technology Ministry said in a statement carried by Iran’s official news agency IRNA.
The statement said the attack, which hit internet service providers and cut off web access for subscribers, was made possible by a vulnerability in routers from Cisco (CSCO.O) which had earlier issued a warning and provided a patch that some firms had failed to install over the Iranian new year holiday.
Cisco did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Iran’s IT minister posted this pic of his monitor’s screen:
بررسیهای اولیه حاکی از آن است که در تنظیمات مسیریابهای مورد حمله قرار گرفته، با حک پرچم ایالت متحده، اعتراضی درباره انتخابات آمریکا صورت گرفته است. دامنه حملات فراتر از ایران است. منشا حملات در دست بررسی است pic.twitter.com/L8erHB52j1
— MJ Azari Jahromi (@azarijahromi) April 6, 2018
Here’s what twitter’s translate button says he tweeted: “Early reviews indicate that it is in the configuration مسیریابهای been attacked, with carved flag protest about the American presidential election, the United States. The scope of the attacks beyond Iran.”
Watch below:
That’ll teach’em!!