Iranian hackers who claimed to have struck telecommunications and water systems in Texas last week said they targeted AT&T because of consumer dissatisfaction with the company and backed off from a vow to escalate attacks in conjunction with the 9/11 anniversary.
APT IRAN, which threatened at the end of August that “critical events” will hit three U.S. critical infrastructure sectors including telecommunications following the water hacks in Minnesota and elsewhere, claimed in a Tuesday post on their Telegram channel that they were behind a Labor Day AT&T outage and breached an unnamed water utility in the Lone Star State.
“We have attacked telecommunications and other critical infrastructure in Texas, including disrupting AT&T internet service in Houston, Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio, and we have also penetrated a water utility in Texas, disrupting water service,” the APT IRAN statement said…