Awesome article! From footnote 1:<p><i>In the time that it takes a sophisticated attacker to find a hole in Azure that will cause an hour of disruption across 1% of VMs, that same attacker could probably completely take down ten unicorns for a much longer period of time. And yet, these attackers are hyper focused on the most hardened targets. Why is that?</i><p>I can&#x27;t figure it out, any fellow posters have ideas?<p>Well funded unicorns with iffy infrastructure seem like good candidates to pay out DDoS ransoms, while Azure, AWS, etc will never pay out a ransom. If attackers want credit cards and email addresses, softer targets seem like a better choice as well. It doesn&#x27;t seem like an attacker can extract any value from hardened targets unless they have state-sponsored or corporate espionage level resources and skill.