{"id":531781,"date":"2026-03-12T16:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/531781\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T16:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:40:09","slug":"iran-linked-cyber-attack-targets-us-medtech-giant-stryker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/531781\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran-linked cyber attack targets US medtech giant Stryker"},"content":{"rendered":"

US medical equipment provider Stryker said its global networks were disrupted by a cyberattack on Wednesday, allegedly carried out by a hacking group linked to Iran. The attack impacted Stryker\u2019s internal Microsoft environment and deleted information from devices, with one employee telling NBC News<\/a> that company phones stopped working, grinding work and communications to a standstill.<\/p>\n

In an SEC filing<\/a> disclosing the attack, Stryker says the \u201cfull scope\u201d of the operational and financial impact on its business \u201care not yet known,\u201d and that it\u2019s unable to provide a full restoration timeline. The situation was still ongoing as of 12:32AM ET on Thursday, when Stryker said that it was working to bring its systems back online as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are continuing to resolve the disruption impacting our global network, resulting from the cyber attack,\u201d Stryker said in the latest statement on its website<\/a>. \u201cAt this time, there is no indication of malware or ransomware and we believe the situation is contained to our internal Microsoft environment only. Our products like Mako, Vocera and LIFEPAK35 are fully safe to use.\u201d<\/p>\n

An Iranian-linked hacker group called Handala has taken responsibility for the attack on X, claiming that it has extracted 50 terabytes of \u201ccritical data\u201d from Stryker and wiped \u201cover 200,000 systems, servers, and mobile devices.\u201d Information from Reddit users linked to Stryker<\/a> and The Wall Street Journal<\/a> corroborates Handala\u2019s involvement, reporting that the hacking group\u2019s logo has appeared on Stryker employee login pages. Previous hacks<\/a> that targeted US agencies<\/a> and organizations<\/a> have been attributed to Iran-linked groups before, but this marks the first significant cyberattack since war broke out between the two countries.<\/p>\n

The attack is believed to have impacted all of Stryker\u2019s operations in Europe, Asia, and the US. An employee at its base in Cork, Ireland \u2014 Stryker\u2019s biggest site outside of the US \u2014 told the Irish Mirror<\/a> that \u201cnobody can work,\u201d and that most of the company-assigned devices had been wiped.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe entire company has been brought to a standstill. Nobody has any idea what is going on. This is going to have a huge knock-on effect.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US medical equipment provider Stryker said its global networks were disrupted by a cyberattack on Wednesday, allegedly carried…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,2100,2532,64,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-531781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-policy","tag-security","tag-tech","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}