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Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker

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Re: Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker

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riffraff wrote: post #26
trhway wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, time to dust off anti-drone defense systems. Today on NPR they talked that Iran plans to launch drones from ships into California. https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/authorities-warn-of-p... Fox News drone expert: https://nypost.com/2026/03/11/us-news/iran-could-use-drones-...

> Iran plans to launch drones from ships into California That does not make any sense to me. Does Iran have a bunch of ships in the Pacific? Why? How would they even got close enough to the US coast without being noticed at this point? I'm not saying it's not true, I just don't understand.

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Re: Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker

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Post by vkou »

sgc wrote: post #28

They are trying to hurt innocents in retaliation for the US murdering their children. I understand the sentiment, but strongly disagree with acting on it. Ukraine has done a much better (of course not perfect) job of retaliating against military targets in response to russian war crimes.

I'm sure that if Iran had the backing of the Western world, and had their surplus of armaments funneled it's way, it would be bombing army bases and refineries and airfields and factories and port facilities in the US.

Unlike Ukraine, it does not, so it seems to be focusing on cyber vandalism and blowing up oil infrastructure in US vassal states, and other low-cost, high-ROI activities.

Re: Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker

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Post by saaaaaam »

riffraff wrote: post #26
trhway wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, time to dust off anti-drone defense systems. Today on NPR they talked that Iran plans to launch drones from ships into California. https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/authorities-warn-of-p... Fox News drone expert: https://nypost.com/2026/03/11/us-news/iran-could-use-drones-...

> Iran plans to launch drones from ships into California That does not make any sense to me. Does Iran have a bunch of ships in the Pacific? Why? How would they even got close enough to the US coast without being noticed at this point? I'm not saying it's not true, I just don't understand.

I’ve been seeing stuff saying China is a big customer of Iranian oil, so maybe there are oil tankers heading to China from Iran. No idea if that is actually the case though. I wonder if that Flexport shipping map that was shared here recently has any info?

Re: Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker

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Post by bawolff »

riffraff wrote: post #26
trhway wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, time to dust off anti-drone defense systems. Today on NPR they talked that Iran plans to launch drones from ships into California. https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/authorities-warn-of-p... Fox News drone expert: https://nypost.com/2026/03/11/us-news/iran-could-use-drones-...

> Iran plans to launch drones from ships into California That does not make any sense to me. Does Iran have a bunch of ships in the Pacific? Why? How would they even got close enough to the US coast without being noticed at this point? I'm not saying it's not true, I just don't understand.

If they were going to do it, it would probably look a lot like Ukraine's spiderweb attack.

However if they were going/able to do it, they probably wouldn't warn everyone and ruin the element of surprise, they would just do it.

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Post by Teever »

sgc wrote: post #28

They are trying to hurt innocents in retaliation for the US murdering their children. I understand the sentiment, but strongly disagree with acting on it. Ukraine has done a much better (of course not perfect) job of retaliating against military targets in response to russian war crimes.

That’s not the motivation for these attacks at all. They’re waging asymmetric warfare against a much larger and more exposed opponent.

Their goal is to make it too troublesome for the US/Israel to continue attacking them, like a swarm of bees attacking a bear to keep it away from their honey.

Iran is in it to win it and the US is so very obviously not.

The question is if the pressure that Israel can put on the current administration greater than the pressure that Iran can put on America as a whole.

Time will tell.

Re: Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker

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Post by renewiltord »

They’ve been around for a while. Threat actors are something that I want our governments to be working on stopping. If they were capable, I would say we should run a government Project Zero but I doubt anyone would do long term service for $70k/yr when they could be making 10x-100x that.

Anyway, the bombings will have to continue till we rubble our enemies.

Re: Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker

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Post by shiroiuma »

JonChesterfield wrote: post #9

So gain access to a machine that can ask microsoft intune to eviscerate the company, ask it to do so, done. Bit of a shame all the machines had that installed really. Reminds me of crowdstrike.

The company should have known better than to trust their IT infrastructure to Microslop. This is their own fault.

Re: Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker

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Post by shiroiuma »

notenlish wrote: post #25
trhway wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, time to dust off anti-drone defense systems. Today on NPR they talked that Iran plans to launch drones from ships into California. https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/authorities-warn-of-p... Fox News drone expert: https://nypost.com/2026/03/11/us-news/iran-could-use-drones-...

I feel like that's not realistic, why would they launch drones to California rather than some place like DC or NY. It's a long distance. I don't even think they'd launch drones to DC either, they seem to be all in on attacking oil infrastructure as well as us bases & defense systems in the Middle East, rather than America.

>why would they launch drones to California rather than some place like DC or NY. It's a long distance.

Because they allegedly have a ship already in the Pacific loaded with drones.

DC and NY are way too far from Iran to launch any kind of attack; the only attack they can possibly do is from a ship, and ships can be anyplace where there's deep enough water.

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