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Iran threatens Nvidia, Apple and other tech giants with attacks
PUBLISHED WED, APR 1 20265:03 AM EDTUPDATED WED, APR 1 202610:37 AM EDTKai Nicol-Schwarz@IN/KAINS
KEY POINTS
- U.S. tech companies have been threatened by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
- Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft and Google were all included in the list.
- The Guard said that starting at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1, Tehran time, the group will target the tech companies in retaliation for further assassinations.
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has threatened attacks on a swath of U.S. tech companies with operations in the Middle East, including Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft and Google.
The Guard warned on Tuesday that 18 tech companies would be considered as “legitimate targets” in retaliation for U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran.
“From now on, for every assassination, an American company will be destroyed,” they said in an Guard-affiliated Telegram channel.
Attacks on those companies would begin from 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1, Tehran time (12:30 p.m. EDT), the Guard said in a post on Telegram translated by Google, warning employees at those companies to leave workplaces immediately to protect their lives.
The list of companies also featured Cisco, HP, Intel, Oracle, IBM, Dell, Palantir, JPMorgan, Tesla, GE, Spire Solutions, Boeing and UAE-based artificial intelligence company G42.
“The safety and wellbeing of our team is our number one priority,” an Intel spokesperson said in a statement to CNBC. “We are taking steps to safeguard and support our workers and facilities in the Middle East and are actively monitoring the situation.”
James Henderson, CEO of risk management firm Healix, said the rise in threats against tech companies is not a flash in the pan, but is a sustained pattern.
“Tech assets are now treated as part of the conflict, not peripheral to it,” he told CNBC.
“It also signals that future crises may target data centres and cloud platforms as much as traditional strategic sites,” he added.
Iranian struck AWS data centers in the Middle East in early March, causing outages in a number of apps and digital services in the United Arab Emirates.
Iran threatens Nvidia, Apple and other tech giants with attacks
Iran's Revolutionary Guard has warned a number of tech companies with Middle East operations that they'll be considered "legitimate targets."
