The Iranian Cyber Army, ircarmy.com, took over the website of Voice of America, voanews.com, and claimed to have hacked 90 other websites over the weekend.

Ebrahim Jabbari, head of the Revolutionary Guard's Ali Ebn-e Abitaleb corps in Qom, has made statements to suggest that the IRGC set up the Iranian Cyber Army, the second-biggest cyberarmy in the world.

The Iranian Cyber Army's website, ircarmy.com even lists the Iranian Army as the registered organization for their website.

Domain Name.......... ircarmy.com
Creation Date........ 2009-12-31
Registration Date.... 2009-12-31
Expiry Date.......... 2011-12-31
Organisation Name.... Iranian Army
Organisation Address. PO Box 61359
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. Sunnyvale
Organisation Address. 94088
Organisation Address. CA
Organisation Address. US

The Iranian Cyber Army were also responsible for the hacking of Twitter and the Chinese search engine Baidu back in 2010.

The Iranian Cyber Army also has been blamed for blocking reformist sites and even hacking into the website of Farsi1, a popular television channel based in Dubai and owned by an Afghan media tycoon and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

The Iranian Cyber Army also rent out botnets to hackers to spread malicious software.

"It's like second-generation jihadists" using computers instead of weapons, said Eldad Pardo, an Iranian affairs expert at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Iran's universities churn out some of the most computer-savvy students in the Middle East.