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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/
100•2bluesc•2h ago

Comments

bingogo•1h 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•1h 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•1h 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•1h 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•1h ago
yeah that is a lot of tech, but it’s all B2B- no consumer breach, right?
pastescreenshot•1h 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•1h ago
so maybe more hospitals shutdown from ransomware attacks coming?
marijan_div•1h 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•1h 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•1h ago
My understanding is that the aim was not to disrupt the supply chain but to harm the company itself.
duskdozer•1h 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•1h 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•1h 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.
bitwize•1h ago
The "Fucking for Virginity" approach to infosec strikes again!
LPisGood•44m ago
Can you elaborate what you mean?

Are you referring to a paradigm where people make their systems less secure in the effort to make them more secure?

jamesmishra•55m ago
Some people on Twitter have jokingly suggested that the Iranians were looking for the maker of the Stryker military vehicle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stryker

Drupon•50m ago
Yeah dumbasses regularly post nonsense on Elon's X™
fartfeatures•42m ago
I'm pretty sure that is not exclusive to X.
ChrisArchitect•37m ago
Related:

Iran warns U.S. tech firms could become targets as war expands

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341007

trhway•20m ago
Well, time to dust off anti-drone defense systems. Today on NPR they talked that Iran plans to launch drones from ships into California. Dovetailing with the parent - what are the chances that Iran would target some Big Tech offices what are not that far from my home... I wonder - would a civilian have a right to shoot at such a drone or say to use a drone-interceptor?

https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/authorities-warn-of-p...

notenlish•17m ago
I feel like that's not realistic, why would they launch drones to California rather than some place like DC or NY. It's a long distance.

I don't even think they'd launch drones to DC either, they seem to be all in on attacking oil infrastructure as well as us bases & defense systems in the Middle East, rather than America.

riffraff•9m ago
> Iran plans to launch drones from ships into California

That does not make any sense to me. Does Iran have a bunch of ships in the Pacific? Why? How would they even got close enough to the US coast without being noticed at this point?

I'm not saying it's not true, I just don't understand.

0x53•9m ago
Never add your personal device to a companies MDM…
sgc•5m ago
They are trying to hurt innocents in retaliation for the US murdering their children. I understand the sentiment, but strongly disagree with acting on it. Ukraine has done a much better (of course not perfect) job of retaliating against military targets in response to russian war crimes.

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Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker

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