‘CanisterWorm’ Springs Wiper Attack Targeting Iran

Multiple high-impact threats and law-enforcement actions: a financially motivated group unleashed “CanisterWorm,” a cloud-propagating worm that wipes systems configured for Iran time zone or Farsi; an Iran-linked hacktivist group claims a destructive wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker; authorities disrupted four massive IoT botnets (Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, Mossad) that compromised millions of devices and fueled record DDoS assaults; the Kimwolf botnet continues to disrupt the I2P anonymity network and its alleged operator (“Dort”) remains active; a new phishing-as-a-service (“Starkiller”)