{"id":1179,"date":"2020-10-19T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T12:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2020\/10\/19\/cyber-attack-attempt-on-irans-ports\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:49:16","slug":"cyber-attack-attempt-on-irans-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/middle-east\/cyber-attack-attempt-on-irans-ports\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber attack attempt on Iran\u2019s ports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ports and Maritime Organization of Iran announced in a statement that its information technology experts have thwarted a cyber attack targeting the electronic infrastructures of the Iranian ports, reported the semi-official Tasnim News Agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll missions and activities of the Ports and Maritime Organization are going on normally,\u201d said the statement, according to the news agency.<\/p>\n<p>The statement noted that online services are being provided to prevent any disruption to the freight services or loading and unloading operations.<\/p>\n<p>No details about the origin of the attack have been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>In May, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/news101\/world\/middle-east\/israel-accused-of-port-cyber-attack\" target=\"_blank\">a cyber attack on Shahid Rajaee port terminal in Iran was blamed on Israel <\/a>by US and foreign government officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s ports were the recent target of a foiled cyberattack, according to the Ports and Maritime Organization of Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1181,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/1181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}