As we reported last week, Stryker was attacked by Iranian-backed hackers in retaliation for Israeli and U.S. strikes against Iran. It was a significant cyberattack, known as a wiper attack. A wiper attack is designed not to extort money from a victim, but instead to send a message and destroy the victim’s data to
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Iranian-backed Handala Hack Hits Ireland Based Stryker with Wiper Attack
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity
With the background of recent government warnings about increased cyber-attacks from Iranian-backed hackers, the Irish Examiner has reported that the Stryker site located in Cork, Ireland has been hit with a wiper attack by the Iranian-backed Handala Hacking Team.
The Stryker facility in Cork employs approximately 5,000 individuals and “has been crippled by a cyberattack”…