Iranian Minister of Communication and Information Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said the country has managed to foil a very big organized cyberattack on the electronic infrastructure, reports Tasnim.

“We (recently) faced a highly organized attack on the e-government infrastructure,” Azari Jahromi told reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet session in Tehran on Wednesday.

The major attack was repelled by the country’s security shield known as the Dejfa firewall, he added.

Back in October, head of Iran’s Civil Defense Organization Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali said the country is taking legal action against the US over repeated cyberattack attempts and threats, while it is putting in place robust security measures to protect its vital infrastructure.