India, April 3 -- In the wake of rising tensions within West Asia, a series of viral rumors claimed Iran was behind an attack on an Oracle data center facility located in Dubai and this came after an alleged Iranian attack on an Amazon cloud computing facility within Bahrain. This raised several eyebrows regarding attacks on crucial digital facilities within the region however, the UAE government stepped in and clarified the situation by dismissing the claims.

Viral Claims Spark Concerns

State media in Iran claimed that the IRGC had attacked major US-related technology infrastructure, which included an Oracle data centre in Dubai. The news quickly spread across social media networks and came at a time when tensions in the region were ab...