Iran-Backed Hackers Claim Wiper Attack on Medtech Firm Stryker

2026-03-16T01:23:28Zd17869aa5624aceb826378cc7d42a00336353b017590b0b06aa1c7386be310f9
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What happened

Multiple KrebsOnSecurity posts report active and emerging threats: an Iran-linked group claims a destructive wiper attack against medtech firm Stryker; the massive Kimwolf IoT botnet (over ~2 million devices) continues to fuel large DDoS campaigns, disrupt the I2P anonymity network, and is found inside corporate and government networks (with the alleged botmaster known as “Dort”); a new phishing-as-a-service called “Starkiller” proxies real login pages and relays credentials and MFA codes to bypass protections; researchers tie actors to Badbox 2.0 and document abusive extortion playbooks (Scat

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d17869aa5624aceb826378cc7d42a00336353b017590b0b06aa1c7386be310f9
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2026-03-16T01:23:28Z
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