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Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/03/iran-backed-hackers-claim-wiper-attack-on-medtech-firm-stryker/
68•2bluesc•1h ago

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bingogo•52m ago
Medtech firms consistently underinvest in corporate network cybersecurity because almost all their security and compliance spending goes to device safety requirements, not IT hardening. This is exactly the kind of gap wiper attacks target.
FreakLegion•16m ago
This was more likely an Intune admin getting phished. Intune has a built-in wipe action: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/intune-service/remo....
cobbzilla•28m ago
My only knowledge of this company is as a manufacturer of gurneys for ambulances.

I guess they have some sensitive data on our emergency services organizations and their headquarters addresses and accounts payable people, maybe PII on signatories (officers, board members & “important people”) and whatnot.

Anyone know if it would be worse?

serf•26m ago
>My only knowledge this company is as a manufacturer of gurneys for ambulances.

they have a tremendous catalog[0].

spend time in a hospital, dental office, rehab, etc and you'll see the logo plastered across everything.

[0]: https://www.stryker.com/us/en/portfolios/medical-surgical-eq...

cobbzilla•25m ago
yeah that is a lot of tech, but it’s all B2B- no consumer breach, right?
pastescreenshot•20m ago
Probably worse in the boring B2B way, not the consumer-breach way. Stryker is deep in hospital operations, so the immediate risk is supply chain and support disruption rather than leaked patient data. The Krebs post says one hospital system already could not order surgical supplies, and if the Intune remote wipe detail is true, recovering internal devices and admin workflows could take a while even without any medical devices themselves being compromised.
cobbzilla•4m ago
so maybe more hospitals shutdown from ransomware attacks coming?
marijan_div•22m ago
Stryker is far more than ambulance gurneys. They’re one of the largest med-tech suppliers, with equipment in operating rooms, ICUs, and surgical departments everywhere.

If a wiper actually hit internal systems, the bigger concern isn’t consumer data but disruption to manufacturing, logistics, and hospital support. That kind of outage could ripple through a lot of hospitals pretty quickly.

camillomiller•21m ago
Seems dire but hardly a supply chain disrupting attack. Stryker is a huge supplier but it not as if this will debilitate the medical supply chain completely. Seems like the hackers found a door they could kick open easily and then justified the action ex-post.
selcuka•17m ago
My understanding is that the aim was not to disrupt the supply chain but to harm the company itself.
duskdozer•6m ago
If they're a primary regional supplier, it could have a huge impact. It doesn't have to break the entire country to matter.
JonChesterfield•20m ago
So gain access to a machine that can ask microsoft intune to eviscerate the company, ask it to do so, done. Bit of a shame all the machines had that installed really. Reminds me of crowdstrike.
Banditoz•16m ago
Does InTune have some sort of check that goes "if over 1% of devices are wiped within a certain timeframe, stop all new device wipe requests"? Seems like it should be a feature, especially if these kinda attacks pick up.
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