Attackers Take Down Medical Equipment Maker’s Systems - DTNS 5224
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Tom Merritt
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🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | responsibility for a wiper malware attack against medical technology company Stryker, that's Stryker with a Y. |
| 0:06.3 | The group claimed it copied 50 terabytes of data before deleting tens of thousands of servers. |
| 0:12.6 | Stryker makes surgical and other medical equipment. |
| 0:15.3 | So this is not a hospital. |
| 0:17.2 | This is not even a company that has health data per se, like personal data. |
| 0:22.5 | This is a company that makes equipment for hospitals, for clinics, things like that. |
| 0:28.6 | Stryker's intra-log-in page was also defaced. |
| 0:32.0 | A striker employee told bleeping computer that devices in the company's mobile device management system were remotely erased |
| 0:37.7 | Wednesday morning. Staff were instructed to remove corporate management and applications from their |
| 0:42.5 | personal devices, including the Intune company portal, teams, and VPN clients. Strikers working to |
| 0:49.7 | restore systems. The Irish Mirror reports that staff in Cork were told in a message we are experiencing |
| 0:55.6 | a severe global disruption impacting all Stryker laptops and systems that connect to our network. |
| 1:00.7 | And a message to employees in Asia said the root cause has not yet been identified. We are |
| 1:05.9 | actively engaged with Microsoft and treating this as a critical enterprise-wide incident. |
| 1:11.7 | Stryker also filed Form 8K with the SEC. That's the one that they have to file to say, |
| 1:17.8 | hey, we've had a material breach. In that filing, it said on March 11, 26, Striker Corporation |
| 1:24.4 | identified a cybersecurity incident affecting a certain information technology |
| 1:29.8 | systems of the company that resulted in a global disruption to the company's Microsoft |
| 1:33.9 | environment. |
| 1:34.9 | Company has no indication of ransomware or malware and believes the incident is contained. |
| 1:40.9 | They don't have a timeline for when things are going to be restored. |
| 1:43.9 | Company said Thursday morning that it can view orders placed before the attack, so those aren't gone, |
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