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The United Arab Emirates Cybersecurity Council said national cyber systems had detected and thwarted advanced, coordinated cyberattacks targeting the country's aviation, energy and education sectors, Emirates News Agency reported.
The council said the attacks were handled proactively and immediately, with intrusion attempts contained before the attackers could achieve their objectives or disrupt the continuity of vital systems and services.
According to the council, the attacks used multiple methods and techniques, including attempts to breach systems and digital infrastructure, target accounts and operational data, launch targeted phishing campaigns and exploit users as entry points into targeted networks.
National cybersecurity teams detected and repelled the activity, tracked the attack paths and related indicators of compromise, and took technical measures to neutralize the threats and prevent them from spreading.
The UAE has previously said Iran targeted a tanker belonging to state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, or ADNOC, while it was transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
In a statement Saturday, the UAE Foreign Ministry condemned what it called a "hostile Iranian attack" involving a missile strike on an ADNOC tanker in the strait. No casualties were reported.
ADNOC said Friday that 15 of its vessels had been attacked in Hormuz since the start of the war, including three during that week alone.
Before U.S.-Israeli strikes in February triggered what quickly became a regional war, the Strait of Hormuz carried around one-fifth of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas.
Iran is in talks with neighboring Oman over arrangements for the future management of the Strait of Hormuz.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said talks with Oman were "approaching the final stages," but stressed that the negotiations did not mean the strait was reopening.
"The reopening of the Strait of Hormuz is subject to other conditions and compensation for the violation of the memorandum of understanding by the United States," Araghchi said, referring to a June agreement between the U.S. and Iran that set terms for peace talks.
The Iranian military also said the talks with Oman were separate from any decision on reopening the strait.
"The opening of the Strait of Hormuz has its own mechanism and has nothing to do with the negotiations between Iran and Oman," it said.
"The enemy is forced to accept Iran's conditions for the opening of the strait and to refrain from the interference that it is currently making in the negotiations, which have almost reached their end, between Iran, Oman and other countries."
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