‘CanisterWorm’ Springs Wiper Attack Targeting Iran
2026-03-31T01:23:34Z•190b97a8c64923720582b339ca0f6efdf4cb147b26589b780da9177faeec9a0a
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What happened
Multiple high-impact threats and developments: a financially motivated group deployed a wormed wiper dubbed “CanisterWorm” that spreads via poorly secured cloud services and selectively wipes systems configured for Iran time zone or Farsi; law enforcement disrupted four massive IoT botnets (Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, Mossad) that had compromised ~3+ million devices and enabled record DDoS attacks; Iran-linked actors claim responsibility for a wiper attack against medtech firm Stryker. Separately, a stealthy phishing-as-a-service called “Starkiller” proxies real login pages and relays MFA to ex
Why it matters
A reviewed impact interpretation has not been published for this record.
Evidence and limitations
- Source ID
- krebs_on_security
- Record identifier
- 190b97a8c64923720582b339ca0f6efdf4cb147b26589b780da9177faeec9a0a
- Enrichment time
- 2026-03-31T01:23:34Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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