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the Hackers that are directly associated with Iran, carried out a series of cyber attacks on employees of the American company Gilead, which is developing a vaccine against coronavirus. About it reports Reuters.

Representatives of several companies involved in cybersecurity, said that servers and Internet domains that were used in the attempt of hacking or another connected with the Islamic Republic. However, to determine how successful was a hacker attack, is not yet possible.

the Iranian Mission to the UN has denied involvement in his country to attack. “The government of Iran not involved in cyber war. Iran’s actions in cyberspace are purely defensive in nature and aimed at protecting against further attacks on Iranian infrastructure,” — said the official representative of the mission.