Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker

Post by WD-42 » Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 4:08 PM UTC

dmix wrote: post #165

b112 wrote: 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…

The only reason the US government doesn't make a big deal about hacking is because they dont want blowback from their own intelligence collection operations. It's like how every country knows embassies are full of spies but they let them operate as diplomats anyway because they do the same thing.

Post by gruez » Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 4:34 PM UTC

jmyeet wrote: post #238

gruez wrote: post #237

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>I'm saying that the media suddenly covering stories like this isn't a coincidence. The media is a tool of the state to manufacture consent [...] What do you mean "suddenly"? Per the reddit thread, they just got hacked yesterday. It's not like they were sitting on the story until the war broke out. Moreover I see hacks covered in the media all the time, even if there's no obvious russia/iran/north korea "manufacture…

> Per the reddit thread, they just got hacked yesterday. There are constant hacks of companies. Most of them don't get covered. So there's that. But it's also how it's framed. It's an "Iranian cyberattack". Interesting. Couldn't an equally valid headline be "Lax security results in Stryker getting hacked"? Probably (just guessing). It's a bit like all the stories about the Chinese stealing IP and jobs. Ok, let's assu…

Post by netsharc » Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 4:57 PM UTC

klipt wrote: post #240

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Americans don't need any encouragement from foreign powers to do that. Congress has seen fit to keep letting it happen by pointing to ancient scripture about the right to develop one's own organized militia....

Difficult to be sure what would happen in a counter factual universe without foreign interference. We do know that Russia et al sow division online as part of their anti western efforts, a strategy detailed in their "Foundations of Geopolitics" manual.

Post by rchaud » Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 5:30 PM UTC

klipt wrote: post #242

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The US can't even confirm how many detainees have died in custody in immigration detention around the country, yet they have precise numbers on how many people the Iranian regime has killed? Give me a break.

If Iran is unwilling to let neutral international observers confirm the number, that suggests they are trying to hide a number they don't want the world to know.

Post by heraldgeezer » Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 5:47 PM UTC

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heraldgeezer wrote: post #225

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No, most companies use MS authenticator now for Office 365... https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/download...

In the company I used to work they shipped you a chromium os computer and a yubikey

  google_workspace:
    total_active_users: "3 billion (includes free/consumer Gmail)"
    paid_business_customers: "11 million companies (2024)"
    paid_customer_growth: "+1 million companies in under 1 year (2023-2024)"
    global_business_market_share: "~50%"
    fortune_500_presence: "minority share, weaker than Microsoft in enterprise"
    mfa_with_yubikeys:
      internal_google_employees: "100% use hardware keys (Yubikey/Titan) — since 2017"
      fido_u2f_origin: "Google co-created U2F standard with Yubico post-Operation Aurora"
      estimated_user_adoption_pct: "~1-3% of all Workspace users (inference, not published)"
      concentration: "Highest in finance, government, tech/security-conscious orgs"
      typical_majority_mfa_method: "TOTP apps (Google Authenticator) or SMS"
      enterprise_passkey_deployment_2025: "87% of US/UK enterprises deploying or have deployed passkeys (FIDO Alliance — includes all hardware key types, not Yubikey-specific)"

  microsoft_365:
    total_active_users: "~270 million (commercial)"
    paid_business_customers_us: "~1 million active US business customers"
    us_company_penetration: "~3% of all US companies"
    global_business_market_share: "~45%"
    fortune_500_presence: "~75% of Fortune 500"
    mfa_with_yubikeys:
      exact_stat_available: false
      note: "Same data gap as Workspace — no published breakdown"

  caveats:
    - "Google's 3B user figure conflates consumer and business — not comparable to Microsoft's 270M commercial figure"
    - "Market share figures vary by methodology (seats vs revenue vs orgs)"
    - "Yubikey adoption % is an industry inference; treat as directional only"
    - "Passkey != Yubikey — FIDO Alliance 87% figure covers all FIDO2/passkey methods"