Internet connectivity in Iran almost completely disappeared on Wednesday, according to the web monitoring companies, while the war with Israel enters its sixth day.
Netblocks, a company that keeps trace of internet access worldwide, written on x That Iran is “now in the middle of an almost total national national internet blackout”.
The company’s evaluation was confirmed by other Internet monitoring organizations.
Data collected by IodaWhich is a system that “monitors the connectivity of the Internet infrastructure in almost real time, with the aim of identifying the macroscopic interruptions of the Internet”, the sudden collapse of Internet connectivity in Iran showed Wednesday.
David Belson, the head of Data Insight at the internet infrastructure Company Cloudflare, told Techcrunch that the Internet traffic levels in Iran “are now ~ 97% where they were at the same time a week ago” and indicated The company data It is Iran Internet connectivity.
The news of the internet blackouts will arrive while Iran and Israel are currently engaged in a military conflict. Iran has also experienced several IT attacks since the beginning of this last conflict, including hacks of A great Iranian bank AND Exchange of cryptocurrencies. Following attacks, Iranian News Outlet Irib said that Israel launched a “huge computer war” against Iran and Iranian officials According to reports, he started limiting access to the country’s internet.
It is not clear, however, what is responsible for the collapse of the Iranian Internet, said Belson.
“In similar cases of almost complete interruption interruptions, often we see a simultaneous drop in the announced IP addresses space, which means that the country’s networks are no longer visible on the internet. However, in this case we have not seen this activity,” said Belson to Techcrunch.
“We can only see that the traffic has come down – the data does not tell us because it has decreased,” added Belson.
Other internet monitoring experts, such as Doug Madory, who works for Kentik, I also saw the same collapse.
“Numerous Iranian service providers now offline in the second national blackout on the internet in as many days”, Madory written on x. “This interruption is more serious than yesterday.”
