According to Sky News, the leaked documents were exposed to the Iranian covert research into the potential of cyber attacks to sink cargo ships, blow up a gas station, or other forms of cyber attack.
They use leaked documents – information about satellite communication devices used in global transport and a computer system that controls lighting and other devices, the newspaper writes. They also show that the Islamic Republic is very interested in British, American and French companies and activities.
Sky News said an anonymous source who provided the documents believed that Tehran was gathering the information to identify targets for future cyber attacks.
“They create a target bank that will be used whenever it sees fit,” the source said.
Iran has reportedly been behind a series of attacks in recent weeks, including a ten-year attempt to persuade British, US and other Western security forces and the military to divulge confidential information about their activities.
Documents classified as “highly confidential” have also shown that the Iranian regime is involved in a joint effort to transform Iran into a globally important cyber player – and the focus of this effort is the secret of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) unit to improve the hermit's ability to strike foreign citizens and military infrastructure.
The quote of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, which is close to the beginning of the publication, reads: “The Islamic Republic of Iran must become one of the most powerful in the world in the field of cyberspace.”
A Sky source said the statement was “an expression of the commander's intent.”
According to the source, documents originating from the IRGC unit Shahid Kaveh, named after one of the first fanatics who joined Ayatollah Khomeini at the beginning of the Islamic Republic's war with Iraq and who later became his personal staff, escaped. bodyguard.
The source said the unit “must be quite secret. They are working on offensive cyber operations around the world. “Publicly available information on how gravel systems work on cargo ships – an analysis of whether they can be used against a ship as a weapon.
Another department is examining the IRGC's ability to use fuel pumps at service stations, some of which have very weak cyber defenses due to outdated infrastructure.
The report states that cyber attacks could disrupt the operation of these pumps.
Iranian agents also explored the possibility of using “intelligent remote systems” for destruction and saw maritime communications equipment as another potential attack. However, both of these lines of inquiry do not seem to lead anywhere. Ben Wallace, the British Secretary of Defense, told Sky News that if the documents were authentic, they would prove that the United Kingdom and its allies were vulnerable to cyber attacks.
“If we don't do anything about it, our critical national infrastructure, our way of life could quite easily be threatened,” he said.
Cyberwar is increasingly seen as a key tool in the war of the future.
The United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, China, Israel, North Korea, and Iran all have offensive computer capabilities, but the nature of computer strategy means that it is often difficult to know exactly what a state is capable of.
In addition to a number of Iranian attacks, other cyber attacks included the massive Solarwinds attack, which spread the virus to thousands of US government computers, and the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, in which hackers broke into pipeline systems and demanded millions of dollars in return inspections to oil pipeline owners.
The oil pipeline attack itself caused a sharp rise in oil prices on the west coast of America, which caused a widespread panic of redemption and paralyzed the US economy.
General Patrick Sanders, Britain's top military officer overseeing cyber operations, said Iran was “one of the most advanced cyber players. We take their abilities seriously. They don't exaggerate. They are serious actors and have behaved really irresponsibly in the past. “