"A major cyberattack has crippled the global networks of Stryker, one of the world's largest medical device companies, with an Iran-linked hacking group claiming responsibility and warning it marks the beginning of a new chapter in cyber warfare. Handala, a hacking persona with documented ties to Tehran, said it carried out the attack in retaliation for the killing of more than 170 people, most of them schoolgirls, in a strike on a school in the southern Iranian city of Minab."
"The hacking group said it had seized 50 terabytes of company data, which it claimed was now in the hands of the free people of the world. The outages began shortly after midnight on the US East Coast on Wednesday, knocking out Windows-based devices, including laptops and mobile phones, connected to Stryker's systems."
"An investigation by Al Jazeera's Digital Investigations Unit of satellite imagery found that the school was possibly deliberately targeted. Six senior Democratic senators in the United States have called for an investigation into the strike, saying in a joint statement that they were horrified by the incident."
A cyberattack attributed to Handala, an Iran-linked hacking group, disrupted Stryker's global networks, affecting Windows-based devices and systems. The group claimed to have seized 50 terabytes of company data and stated the attack was retaliation for a US-Israeli military strike on a school in Minab, Iran, that killed more than 170 people, predominantly schoolgirls. Satellite imagery analysis suggested the school may have been deliberately targeted. The outages began Wednesday on the US East Coast, with Stryker confirming a global network disruption to its Microsoft environment. The company found no evidence of ransomware or malware and believed the incident was contained. Six senior Democratic senators called for an investigation into the school strike.
Read at www.aljazeera.com
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