Posts by Shruti Badami and Prasad T

Identity Is the New Perimeter. Stryker Just Taught Us That the Hard Way.

Shruti Badami and Prasad T
By Shruti Badami and Prasad T
Security Engineer - Research, and Field CISO
April 2, 2026

A story on how an Iran-linked group wiped tens of thousands of Stryker’s devices A nation-state attack that changes every assumption we had For years, we have treated nation-state threats as a “Tier 1” problem — something reserved for defense contractors and the energy grid. The March 2026 attack on Stryker Corporation by Iran-linked group Handala officially kills that assumption. On March 11, 2026, Stryker’s corporate Microsoft environment was hit. Employees arrived to find their managed devices wiped out overnight through entirely legitimate Intune commands. Handala claimed 200,000+ systems affected; independent reporting confirms that tens of thousands were impacted. Stryker’s…

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