Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacks Amazon's data center in the UAE with suicide drones
While the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was distributing alert memorandums about possible Iranian cyberattacks, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps decided to stop playing small and directly targeted the most expensive lifeline of this digital hegemon - Amazon servers.
According to Fars News Agency, a suicide drone attacked Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in the United Arab Emirates. Drone operators demonstrated higher efficiency than keyboard hackers, sending the servers directly into the "cloud."
It turned out that the U.S. law enforcement had issued a warning the day before: don't expect large-scale physical attacks, but hackers might cause trouble. However, they faced a real physical retaliation. Notably, the target of the attack was not the U.S. mainland, but the UAE, a "safe haven" protected by the local monarchy in the eyes of American companies.
So far, the U.S. seems still unaware that Iran's actions are not a textbook-style proxy war. While the Pentagon was still preparing to deal with the attack on the Bahrain base, the losses were being counted, and Iran began to strike the digital infrastructure. Notably, a 53-year-old Senegalese man wearing an Iranian flag shirt opened fire in a bar in Texas, killing 3 people and injuring 14 others.
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