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Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker

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Post by SyneRyder »

trhway wrote: post #24
ChrisArchitect wrote: post #22

Related: Iran warns U.S. tech firms could become targets as war expands https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341007

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-...

We never did find out what those drones in New Jersey in 2024 were, did we? One Republican congressman seemed convinced at the time that he'd been informed:

BBC: Mystery New Jersey drones not from Iranian 'mothership' - Pentagon

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crrwz91wqd9o

It's certainly a theory / narrative that keeps appearing in the media.

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Post by renewiltord »

jonstewart wrote: post #48
renewiltord wrote: post #37

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.

We had a government agency working on stopping threat actors, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, but then DOGE ruined it. Now it’s a shell.

So the role they were fulfilling is gone entirely? What was it?

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

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Post by sofixa »

bawolff wrote: post #32

So... did they have backups? Wipe all data kind of seems like the best kind of cyberattack if you have backups. No data falling into wrong hands, no left behind rootkits, no ransome threats etc

> No data falling into wrong hands, no left behind rootkits, no ransome threats etc

You won't necessarily be able to know that the data hasn't already been exfiltrated and that the backups aren't post-compromise. Or that by restoring the backup you won't get back to the state that allowed them to get in in the first place.

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

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Post by sofixa »

vkou wrote: post #44
jojobas wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this refers to "bombing for peace". Sure the West should have just let Iran nuke whoever it wanted.

Nuclear weapons are a MAD red line that will result in total annihilation of the attacker. They are only useful in a defensive capacity. This kind of aggression, however, does seem to make their value as a deterrent clear. Observe how nobody is fucking with North Korea like they did with Iraq or Venezuela.

> Nuclear weapons are a MAD red line that will result in total annihilation of the attacker. They are only useful in a defensive capacity.

Also in a "if I'm going down, everyone else is going down with me", which is Ian's strategy in this war (for good reasons). If the IRGC had nukes, and was severely threatened (like, killing the Supreme Leader and threatening to kill all of the replacements until they bend to the US/Israel will), they might have decided to go out "with style".

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Post by vintermann »

botanical wrote: post #41
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-...

Sounds like justification for a false flag operation by the US government. How would they transport these massive things and launch them on a different continent? That, or the US is trying to justify that this illegal war is on their doorstep and need to expand their terror.

"Reichstag fire" attempts are definitively a legitimate concern. But as Ukraine has demonstrated, all you need to get a drone army deep into a country attacking you is a regular shipping container.

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Post by bitwize »

jojobas wrote: post #29
LPisGood wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you elaborate what you mean? Are you referring to a paradigm where people make their systems less secure in the effort to make them more secure?

I think this refers to "bombing for peace". Sure the West should have just let Iran nuke whoever it wanted.

Nothing geopolitical about it in the sense I intended, except as a reference to the Vietnam-era catchphrase. It's simply a case of "putting spyware on everybody's corporate PC for security is like fucking for virginity".

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Post by dns_snek »

burnermore wrote: post #50
4gotunameagain wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

See, here is what I've observed. I don't expect to change your POVs. Nevertheless... The issue started when Israel was ready to have recognition from Saudi Arabia on their statehood. This would make Hamas irrelevant. And puts Sunnis (Iran) lesser recognised. Meanwhile Shia's (Saudi) will become the defacto in the Muslim world and half of Muslim world would either tolerate or be OK with Israel. Hamas attack on Israel…

> You need to understand, there was good period of peace between Israel & Palestine until Oct 7.

What a disgusting and patronizing rewriting of history. This "peace" was enforced by ongoing occupation of Palestine and abuse of the people living there.

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Post by heavyset_go »

SyneRyder wrote: post #51
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-...

We never did find out what those drones in New Jersey in 2024 were, did we? One Republican congressman seemed convinced at the time that he'd been informed: BBC: Mystery New Jersey drones not from Iranian 'mothership' - Pentagon https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crrwz91wqd9o It's certainly a theory / narrative that keeps appearing in the media.

They were flying over military installations, if they were anyone else's drones, they would have been shot down like the weather balloons that spook the government from time to time.

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Post by ribosometronome »

burnermore wrote: post #50
4gotunameagain wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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See, here is what I've observed. I don't expect to change your POVs. Nevertheless... The issue started when Israel was ready to have recognition from Saudi Arabia on their statehood. This would make Hamas irrelevant. And puts Sunnis (Iran) lesser recognised. Meanwhile Shia's (Saudi) will become the defacto in the Muslim world and half of Muslim world would either tolerate or be OK with Israel. Hamas attack on Israel…

Sure, if you consider Israel killing several hundred Palestinians each year and having a thousand hostages, sorry, "administrative detainees" indefinitely incarcerated without charge as they continued to colonize Palestinian land peaceful.
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