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Iran’s government says it shut down internet to protect against cyberattacks
The government cited the recent hacks on Bank Sepah and cryptocurrency exchange Nobite as reasons to shut down internet access to virtually all Iranians.
Security is our main concern, and we are witnessing cyberattacks on the country’s critical infrastructure and disruptions in the functioning of banks,” Fatemeh Mohajerani, Iran’s government spokesperson, was quoted as saying in a local news story. Amir Rashidi, Director of cyber security and digital rights at Miaan Group, told TechCrunch that his family evacuated Tehran as they lived in a neighborhood that the Israeli government warned it was going to target. Nariman Gharib, an Iranian activist who lives in London, said that a small group of people are able to get online because they know how to use virtual private servers as proxies, or “get lucky with their ADSL connections, since there are some disruptions in the network.”
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