"...Attacks on those companies would begin from 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1, Tehran time (12:30 p.m. EDT), the IRGC 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, JP Morgan, Tesla, GE, Spire Solutions, Boeing and UAE-based AI company G42. ..."

There is a possibility the IRGC are trolling, given it's April's Fool today.

Kill they Supreme leader and 40 other leaders, destroy their Navy and Airforce and give them 30 days of B1 and B2 night and day bombings, and they decide it still worth it to joke on Aprils Fools ? :-) I have to give to them...

I guess this is supposed to be funny but I wouldn’t take that chance.

[dupe] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591208

AWS me-south-1 got hit (again) earlier today.

"Amazon waives entire month’s AWS charges after Iranian drone attack" - https://www.networkworld.com/article/4151880/amazon-waives-e...

Here's what I don't understand, why doesn't the US simply cut their connections to the world. It's quite easy to find fiber optic locations...cut them.

Instead of flinging bombs and missiles, take out their knees with some cable cutters.

> Here's what I don't understand, why doesn't the US simply cut their connections to the world. It's quite easy to find fiber optic locations...cut them.

Iran cut it itself. Its running its own domestic internet where everything domestic works. All domestic banks, apps.

Literal arrogance to think that the US owns the world.

Iran is sanctioned for so long now, they had no other choice than to become as independent as possible.

Cutting communications hinders iran less then outsiders trying to spark a revolution. I think thats also a reason why russia and other autocratic nations have internet kill switches too.

> litteral arrogance

True.

> I think thats also a reason why russia and other autocratic nations have internet kill switches too.

They have that for the same reason they always have a military, even if it's 100 years behind anyone else's - to keep the populace in check. A T-55 might be completely obsolete against a cheap FPV drone, but it's still a formidable weapon against a crowd of unarmed people.

Not sure how that determines "Literal arrogance...". My assumption, perhaps naive, is that Iran had connections to the outside world from which the hacking was taking place.

Are the Iranian hackers not within Iran?

You can buy access to compromised computers anywhere in the world. This would require cutting off any path to anywhere in the world, since the person performing the attacks can also be anywhere in the world.

The US isolating itself from the rest of the world isn't financially feasible.

How did OP imply anything? He asked why one of the parties in the conflict don’t cut cables.

Surely they would have terrestrial connections to the North. And this could encourage Iran to cut all the other fibre links that run through the region.

The Iranians themselves have already done that. A remaining option is to turn the lights off next.

That could probably affect the entire region and not just a single country?

Because they have already done that themselves.

Its called the Internet for a reason...

Sovereign AI adds another layer of meaning now that sovereignties are at war.

So they mean to strike those companies with a presence in the middle east? Surely they don't think they can hit US mainland?

Yes, they certainly mean they will attack those companies facilities in the region.