Internet collapses across Iran, web surveillance companies say

Internet connectivity in Iran almost completely disappeared on Wednesday, according to web surveillance companies, while War with Israel enters its sixth day.

Netblocks, a company that follows internet access around the world, Written on x This Iran is “now in the middle of an almost total national internet breakdown”.

The company’s assessment has been confirmed by other Internet surveillance organizations.

Data collected by IodaWhich is a system that “monitors the connectivity of the internet infrastructure in almost real time, in order to identify macroscopic Internet failures,” showed the sudden collapse of Internet connectivity in Iran on Wednesday.

David Belson, data manager of the Internet Infrastructure Cloudflare infrastructure, told Techcrunch that Internet traffic levels in Iran “are now ~ 97% below where they were at the same time a week ago” and stressed business data is Iran Internet connectivity.

The news of the internet breakdowns come while Iran and Israel are currently engaged in a military conflict. Iran has also experienced several cyber attacks since the start of this last conflict, including the hacks of A large Iranian bank And Crypto exchange. Following attacks, the Iranian media Irib said that Israel had launched a “massive cyber war” against Iran and that Iranian officials would have started to restrict access to the country’s internet.

It is not clear, however, which is responsible for the collapse of the Iranian Internet, said Belson.

“In similar cases of almost complete internet breakdowns, we often see a simultaneous drop in the IP address space announced, which means that the country’s networks are no longer visible on the internet. However, we have not seen such an activity in this case,” Belson told Techcrunch.

“We can only see that traffic has dropped – the data does not tell us why it fell,” added Belson.

Other internet experts, such as Doug Madory, who works for Kentik, also saw the same collapse.

“Many Iranian service providers are now offline in the second internet national panel in as many days”, Madory Written on x. “This breakdown is more serious than yesterday.”