The actual cyber threat from Iran appears overblown based on recent evidence. Security researchers report seeing little sophisticated activity following major military strikes, suggesting Iran's digital capabilities may be more limited than feared. Much of the hacking appears to be basic opportunistic attacks rather than coordinated state-sponsored operations. Stories like this prime the West for continued hostilities with Iran.

The incessant clamor over a potential cyberwar with Iran masks the truth that the Iran has been one of the biggest victims of cyberwarfare on the planet. The Stuxnet virus, for instance, was a jointly made U.S.-Israeli cyberweapon which decimated Iran's peaceful nuclear program by destroying centrifuges. No Iranian attack could ever match the devastation already inflicted on Iran.