Cork-based cybersecurity firm warn of 300% increase in cyber attacks from Iran

Tensions between Iran and the United States dramatically escalated after a top Iranian military commander was killed in a US airstrike in Iraq in early January.

A Cork-based cybersecurity firm has warned of an almost 300% increase in cyber attacks from Iran in recent weeks.

Smarttech247, based in Cork Airport Business Park, says there has been a spike in 'malicious activity' since the escalation of tensions between Iran and the United States which, it says, illustrates the threat posed by nation-state cyber attacks.