{"id":2866,"date":"2026-03-04T11:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/2866\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T11:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:52:09","slug":"europe-braces-as-iran-threatens-to-attack-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/2866\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe braces as Iran threatens to attack\u00a0 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran is typically seen as one of the big four cyber adversaries to the West \u2014 alongside Russia, China and North Korea. So far, however, there is little evidence to suggest it\u2019s actively targeting Europe. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, Iran\u2019s cyber activity has largely stopped since the U.S. bombing began, according to one senior European cybersecurity official, granted anonymity to discuss ongoing assessments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If and when European countries make their support for U.S. and Israeli activities more explicit, that will likely draw them into the firing line, cyber industry officials said. \u201cEurope should definitely expect that exactly what happened in the Gulf could happen and should happen in Europe,\u201d said Gil Messing, chief of staff at Israeli cyber firm Check Point.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2263057727-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8043921\"  \/>EU Commissioner Henna Virkkunen spoke of the need to monitor cyber security and especially critical infrastructure. | Thierry Monasse\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Messing said his firm is already seeing evidence of cyberattacks in Cyprus, the only EU country that Iran has targeted with physical attacks so far. There\u2019s no evidence of attacks in other European countries but it\u2019s likely coming down the tracks, he said. <\/p>\n<p>And if attacks do take place, Iran\u2019s capabilities, though lessened in recent years, remain significant, experts said. Iran\u2019s security and intelligence services have cyber units comprising hundreds of people, with tens of millions of dollars of funding, Messing said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the regime lasts,\u201d the senior official quoted above said, \u201cthey will be back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victor Goury-Laffont, Laura Kayali, Antoaneta Roussi, Joshua Berlinger and Sebastian Starcevic contributed reporting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran is typically seen as one of the big four cyber adversaries to the West \u2014 alongside Russia,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2237,2024,1216,2238,262,2239,2240,2241,822,388,648,2242,38,687,382,537,307,2243,1601,694,1281,2244,34,37,654,93,2245,689,49,179,712,2246,2247,55,443,2042,2248,545,1176,56,691,51,36,226,180],"class_list":{"0":"post-2866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-airports","9":"tag-albania","10":"tag-belgium","11":"tag-bulgaria","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-cities","14":"tag-critical-infrastructure","15":"tag-cyber-warfare","16":"tag-cybersecurity","17":"tag-cyprus","18":"tag-defense","19":"tag-development","20":"tag-donald-trump","21":"tag-drones","22":"tag-france","23":"tag-germany","24":"tag-greece","25":"tag-henna-virkkunen","26":"tag-industry","27":"tag-infrastructure","28":"tag-intelligence","29":"tag-intelligence-services","30":"tag-iran","31":"tag-israel","32":"tag-jordan","33":"tag-lebanon","34":"tag-mark-rutte","35":"tag-media","36":"tag-middle-east","37":"tag-military","38":"tag-missiles","39":"tag-north-korea","40":"tag-romania","41":"tag-russia","42":"tag-security","43":"tag-services","44":"tag-sweden","45":"tag-terrorism","46":"tag-turkey","47":"tag-ukraine","48":"tag-united-kingdom","49":"tag-united-states","50":"tag-war","51":"tag-war-in-iran","52":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}