Azerbaijan, Baku, Aug. 1 /Trend S.Isayev, T. Jafarov/
Head of of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Fereydoon Abbasi said reports about Iran's nuclear programme being hit with a new cyber virus that played music by the rock band AC/DC are false, ISNA reported.
Last month, internet security website F-Secure reported that Iran's nuclear programme has been hit with a new cyber virus that shut down key computerized functions at two facilities and played music by the rock band AC/DC at loud volumes.
The website said it was informed of the cyber attack by a scientist working at the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) who sent F-Secure an email detailing the breach, dpa reported.
F-Secure said that it could not confirm any details of the cyber attack apart from the fact that the researcher was indeed sending and receiving emails from within AEOI.
Iran's nuclear programme has been a frequent target of cyber attacks, which the country's leaders have blamed on Israel and the United States.
The Stuxnet virus, which was revealed in 2010, reportedly destroyed thousands of centrifuges at a uranium enrichment facility, while the Flame virus, discovered in May, was a sophisticated spy tool implanted on the computers of government officials.