The real story here is that apparently Microsoft has 2000 clients who have been paying them for security services only to see a 10x increase in attacks. That's a seriously incompetent "threat intelligence group" you have there.
@Jenny
As always the best way to improve security, whether technological or national, is to improve people's lives, not bully them. What a radical concept.
So radical, I guess, that the Middle East has had thousands of years to get it right, yet continue to "bully" their own people in some rather horrific ways (especially women). Nobody should be pretending to be in a position of moral superiority here. As a practical matter, Iranians have more productive actions they could take than attacking foreign organizations.
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