Live data from Hacker News

Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker

krebsonsecurity.com

221–230 of 342 posts

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

#221

If Intune wiped personal devices that’s a serious failure. BYOD setups are supposed to wipe only the work container, not the whole phone. Either those devices were fully enrolled in MDM without people realizing or someone pushed the wrong wipe policy during incident response. Would be good to see confirmation from affected employees.

This isn't true for iOS at least. You can include device erase capabilities in the MDM profile without enrolling as a managed device.

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

#223
post #170

Isn't it a weird coincidence that soon after the US and Israel started an unprovoked and unnecessary war (that billionaires will profit handsomely from, as an aside) that we get stories like this to manufacture consent? I belive that US tech firms have increasingly become valid military targets. There was a post about this yesterday [1]. BUT I don't think that extends to hospitals and medical supplies, regardless of…

If you make justifications for non-military targets like that ("tech firms"), then it just becomes a matter of opinion on where we draw the line. _You_ don't think that extends to hospitals and medical supplies, but _they_ might, and you're moral compass is just as righteous as theirs.

There was a time when there was less restraint with what prosecuting a war looked like. The Mongols famously wiped out the Khwarazmian Empire after the Sultan killed their traders.

But given the growth in destructive power, particularly with the advent of the nuclear age, it became necessary to establish some rules or norms for war and I'm referring specifically to the Geneva Conventions [1]. Conventions here cover that wounded people and civilians aren't military targets. So it's not my opinion or Iran's opinion that matters.

The question then is do we live in an interntional rules-based order or not? The US and Israel have ignored the rules-based order in favor of "might is right" politics.

As for tech firms, I'm sorry but a company like Palantir has made itself a valid military target [2][3]. And if you work there, you are really no different from the Reaper Drone pilot who fires Hellfire missiles at, say, a wedding procession [4].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions

[2]: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

[3]: https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/palantir...

[4]: https://aoav.org.uk/2014/drone-strike-yemen/

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

#224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or we could see this as a ramification for US bombing their country and DIRECTLY killing people, including many non-combatants. Like children, at school https://www.npr.org/2026/03/11/nx-s1-5744981/pentagon-iran-m...

I don't see why this matters, there are accidental civilian casualties in every war. This was unintentional, unlike Iran killing 30,000 of their own citizens, which was entirely deliberate. If you can find evidence the United States directly targeted a school with the intent of killing children and not just due to outdated intel (and somebody setting up a school in what was once part of an Iranian Revolutionary Guard…

30000 is nothing compared to the civilians the US has killed all over the world, all "accidentally" of course. Since 2023 Israel has killed 57000 civilians in Gaza. Shouldn't you be calling for an invasion of Israel on humanitarian grounds then?

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

#225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only maybe grey area is to only us it as authenticator. But yes even then the company needs to provide this, a cheap phone works.

USB keys? Isn't that what most companies do?

No, most companies use MS authenticator now for Office 365...

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/download...

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

#226
post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What happens when you murder 30,000 protestors?

Idk, this didn't happen in Iran. Literally not a single bit of evidence to prove these claims of violence of the state of Iran against its citizens.. Your consent has been completely manufactured. You people are trying to wash the sins of the genocide you just committed on the people of Gaza by creating a fake one in Iran, to justify your thirst for blood. While I'm sure that it did happen, it certainly wasn't 30k pe…

So, if you want your argument stronger: 7k deaths confirmed, 6400 protesters, 200 regime officers, and 400 bystanders.

Plus 11k unconfirmed dead, according to HRANA, so at most 18k dead during the Iranian protests. They also jailed 50k people, and before the war, it seemed a third of those were destined to be executed if the trend continued.

Iran also execute between 50 and 500 people a year, every year, and in the last 5, it was closer to 500, culminating in 2025 where 1500 person got the death penalty.

A regime that has to kill that much is weak, and would probably have fallen on itself if the US hadn't launched any strikes.

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

#227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think he's pointing out that we're not bombing China or Russia or North Korea, or any other states, over similar attacks.

Because they have nukes unlike Iran.

And one wonders why Iran wants a nuke. It's not to wipe out Israel and the US as some hawks in Congress falsely claim. It's the same reason North Korea developed nukes. Terrible regimes, but they understand countries with nukes don't get bombed or invaded. That's Ukraine's tragedy.

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

#228
post #153

I absolutely think there should be ramifications for such acts. What I find bizarre, is that China and Russia do this daily, and "oh well". If such states sent over people to, you know, do damage using a bomb instead of a hack, there'd be trouble. As in, two towers were damaged, and it set off 20 years of war ... mostly against the wrong states. Yet if you cause death via subtle means, such as reducing hospital infra…

Their country is being attacked. They are the aggressed party.

What ramifications you think is going to happen? They already have their country being bombed.

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

#229
post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think he's pointing out that we're not bombing China or Russia or North Korea, or any other states, over similar attacks.

Well they're not... um... what was it that Iran was doing to make us bomb them again?

plainly: they're being punished for not having nuclear weapons already

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

#230
post #153

I absolutely think there should be ramifications for such acts. What I find bizarre, is that China and Russia do this daily, and "oh well". If such states sent over people to, you know, do damage using a bomb instead of a hack, there'd be trouble. As in, two towers were damaged, and it set off 20 years of war ... mostly against the wrong states. Yet if you cause death via subtle means, such as reducing hospital infra…

Yep, the US should kill another 170 kids in a school, for example, right? Edit: this is one of those case where I would really love to see the face of the one who downvoted this comment.

I didn't downvote you, but you probably were because your comment is an impertinent strawman. The faces of your downvoters are normal people who care about the quality of the discussion.
Post reply on HN