Iran-Backed Hackers Claim Wiper Attack on Medtech Firm Stryker

2026-03-17T19:23:31Zb264cc3a4265967d4acc58809522425da2c698c051f9cf701b3e4c53a73f4d34
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What happened

KrebsOnSecurity items cover several high-impact threats: an Iran-linked actor claims a destructive wiper attack against medtech company Stryker (reports of thousands of employees sent home and a reported building emergency); a stealthy phishing-as-a-service named “Starkiller” that proxies real login pages and relays credentials and MFA codes to bypass protections; the rapidly growing Kimwolf IoT botnet (≈2M+ devices) disrupting the I2P anonymity network, affecting corporate and government networks, and linked to compromises of other botnets (Badbox 2.0) with an active botmaster (“Dort”) who is

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2026-03-17T19:23:31Z
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