Cyberattack halts output at an Iranian steel company

• The state-owned Khuzestan Steel Company announced on Monday that it had been hit by a cyberattack.
• The company did not assign blame to a particular group for the hack, which is merely the most recent instance of an attack against the country’s services in recent weeks.
• The company did not assign blame to a particular group for the hack.

One of Iranian largest steel companies announced on Monday that it had been forced to suspend production due to a cyberattack, which appears to be one of the largest such attacks on the country’s critical industrial sector in recent memory.

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A local news station reported that the attack did not cause any structural damage to the steel mill because the factory was out of commission at the time due to a power outage.

The company did not assign blame to a particular group for the hack, which is merely the most recent instance of an attack against the country’s services in recent weeks.

Iran has previously accused the United States and Israel of launching cyberattacks against its infrastructure and crippling it.

Along with two other large state-owned companies, Khuzestan Steel Company, situated in Ahvaz in southwestern Iran, holds a monopoly on steel manufacturing in Iran.

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