Stryker Corporation is fully operational just weeks after a crippling data-wiping cyberattack by Iranian-linked hacktivists. Here’s how the medtech giant recovered, what was at stake, and why the entire healthcare industry is on high alert.
As U.S.–Israeli strikes hit Iran, a surge of cyberattacks and hacktivist campaigns reveal a new phase of hybrid warfare. Investigative feature on the convergence of digital and kinetic operations in the Iran conflict.
Hacktivists are using simple, low-tech methods to compromise industrial systems worldwide, leveraging exposed remote access protocols to disrupt vital infrastructure in the name of geopolitics.
Stryker, a global medical technology giant, suffered a crippling cyberattack attributed to Iranian-linked group Handala. The attack wiped thousands of devices and disrupted manufacturing and shipping, exposing vulnerabilities in the healthcare supply chain.
Hacktivists used AI chatbots to breach nine Mexican government agencies, exposing over 195 million records and revealing how artificial intelligence is supercharging cybercrime.
In the aftermath of Middle East conflict, hacktivists launched 149 DDoS attacks against 110 organizations across 16 countries. These coordinated cyber offensives targeted governments, finance, and infrastructure, highlighting the growing digital frontlines of modern conflict.
A hacktivist group exploited a ScadaBR flaw to deface a fake water plant, highlighting real-world risks to industrial control systems and the urgent need for better cybersecurity.