Iran threatened to attack US tech companies with operations in the Middle East, calling out Nvidia, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Google and a dozen others.
The revolutionary guard urged employees to leave the facilities, and residents within a kilometer around them. The threat comes after Iran struck AWS data centers last month, prompting outages. And tech companies are extending security actions to locations around the world, including the US, security firm HiveWatch told Semafor.
HiveWatch, which provides monitoring software, is fielding a surge of calls from anyone with data centers, power plants, and cell phone towers — mirroring a bump in business it got after last year’s shooting at a Manhattan office housing Blackstone and the NFL, and the fatal shooting of a UnitedHealthcare executive in 2024, HiveWatch CEO Ryan Schonfeld said. Among other things, HiveWatch monitors video feeds, employee access, online conversations, threats against executives and brands, and 911 dispatches. “There’s only so much physical security you can add to stop a rocket,” Schonfeld said.
Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the name of a company involved in a 2025 Manhattan shooting. It was Blackstone.