The Israeli hacker group, “We Red Evils Original”, took responsibility for reported WiFi outages in Iran, according to Israeli media on Thursday night.
Shortly before reports in Iran, the group posted a message on their Telegram saying, ‘In the coming minutes, we will attack internet systems and providers in Iran. A severe blow is on the way.’ The Post found many comments in Iran from users saying they had heard the internet was down in parts of the country and that there were internet blackouts in certain parts of Tehran.
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Source: The Jerusalem Post
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