A Utah government agency says it has pushed back on a cyberattack it says originated from Iran — likely in retaliation for a U.S. drone strike that killed an Iranian military leader in Iraq.
The Utah Division of Technology Services picked up an unusual amount of “surveillance traffic” on Sunday, and saw that it was mostly coming from Iran.
“We normally don’t see stuff from Iran,” Phil Bates, the division’s chief information security officer, said Wednesday. “They were scanning our network, looking for any opportunity that was there.”
The division enacted “countermeasures” — Bates wouldn’t say what, due to security concerns — to push back against the surveillance.