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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Victim Stryker Sued for Iranian-Backed Cyber Attack

By Linn Foster Freedman on March 19, 2026
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation

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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