The Israel Defense Forces has claimed to have destroyed Iran's cyber warfare headquarters, its Intelligence Directorate, and other critical military units after bombing a Tehran-based compound, according to The Cyber Express.
Additional details regarding the military operation were not provided. However, such a strike was noted by Cyble cybersecurity experts as unlikely to eliminate Iran's cyber operational capability, as state-backed threat operations increasingly leverage distributed infrastructure and encrypted communications.
"The present phase saw cyber activity that was largely anticipatory rather than destructive. What warrants continued monitoring is the assessed gap between current activity levels and the capability sets known to be held by state-sponsored actors on both sides," said researchers.
Iran was also noted by other cybersecurity experts to have established an attack infrastructure before the joint U.S-Israel missile strikes. Hacktivist operations, including Iraq- and Russia-linked groups, have mostly launched retaliatory distributed denial-of-service intrusions in the wake of the missile attacks.
