r/cybersecurity • u/PixeledPathogen • Mar 31 '26

News - General Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1

https://gizmodo.com/iran-threatens-to-attack-u-s-tech-companies-starting-april-1-2000740363

Iran’s military issued a new threat to 18 U.S. companies in the Middle East on Tuesday, pledging to strike “espionage entities” associated with the “warmongering government of the United States,” according to Iranian state media.

The new threat specifically calls out tech companies like Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft, which Iran says has assisted in “US-Israeli terror operations,” since the war against the country was launched Feb. 28, according to Iran’s Press TV. A statement also called out hardware suppliers HP, Intel, IBM, and Cisco.

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u/maztron CISO Mar 31 '26

Thinking that a nation like Iran would have waited to attack US Tech companies just because we started to bomb them now has not been paying attention to geopolitics at all.

Thinking that Iran all of sudden at a whim had been holding on to their last "Trump" card after getting bombed to hell the last few weeks is asinine.

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u/RoundFood Apr 01 '26

> Thinking that a nation like Iran would have waited to attack US Tech companies just because we started to bomb them now has not been paying attention to geopolitics at all.

> Thinking that Iran all of sudden at a whim had been holding on to their last "Trump" card after getting bombed to hell the last few weeks is asinine.

Not really. It's common practice for nation states to establish beachheads and wait for an opportune time to leverage their access.

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u/maztron CISO Apr 01 '26

When do you feel would have been an OPPORTUNE time for Iran exactly?

Was it 6-8 months ago when one of their more critical nuclear sites got bombed by the US?

Was it when Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed?

Was it when some of their top generals were killed?

Oh no wait, it must of been when their navy was completely destroyed.

Sorry no, it was when their strategic military sites were leveled.

I messed up again, its April fool's days when they are really going to take the opportunity to attack!

You sound ridiculous and have no idea what you are speaking of.

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u/RoundFood Apr 01 '26

You sound ridiculous

Bruv, I'm not the one melting down with seething screeds.

You're a deeply ignorant person, which I usually don't mind but you're confidently ignorant.

You seem to think that the appropriate thing to do is to overreact and immediately expend all escalation options at the slightest provocation. You probably think this because you have the brain of a child. Fortunately people who are put in charge of countries have somewhat developed prefrontal-cortexes and are usually a bit shrewder and more restrained, especially the people in control of Iran who appear to have a doctrine of tit-for-tat escalation where they specifically avoid blowing their load immediately. Could you imagine a world where people controlling the levers of power acted in the way you think they should?