[HN Gopher] Pro-Iran hackers claim cyberattack on major US medic...
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       Pro-Iran hackers claim cyberattack on major US medical device maker
        
       Author : zomg
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2026-03-11 20:39 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.cnn.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.cnn.com)
        
       | jjgreen wrote:
       | _In a social media post on Wednesday, the hacking group that
       | claimed responsibility said the Stryker hack was retaliation for
       | a missile strike on an elementary school in Iran..._
       | 
       | Being sickened and angered by the killing of so many schoolgirls,
       | who happen to be Iranian, makes you "Pro-Iran"? Strange world.
        
         | kmbfjr wrote:
         | Nuance is dead, it is all collectively distilled to a binary
         | choice these days.
        
           | whynotmaybe wrote:
           | It's becoming tiresome to see nuance vanishing even here on
           | HN.
           | 
           | "My team is right, your team is wrong. You must chose my team
           | otherwise it means you're with them and so you're wrong and
           | my enemy"
           | 
           | No, you can both be wrong and right.
        
         | klipt wrote:
         | They're angry about civilians dying, so they want different
         | civilians to die from lack of medical devices?
        
       | bell-cot wrote:
       | At least from CNN's story, it seems unclear whether this was an
       | attack by a known pro-Iran group, with an "in retaliation for
       | killing schoolgirls" tagline. Or an attack by some unknown
       | group(s), with such a tagline.
       | 
       | Given how many hacking groups don't like the US, the latter would
       | tell us almost nothing about the attackers' actual identities and
       | objectives.
        
         | jajuuka wrote:
         | This definitely seems a little odd. Very convenient time to
         | slap a "and they are pro-Iran" label on it.
        
           | bell-cot wrote:
           | Yeah, from the Pentagon's or CNN's PoV.
           | 
           | Though if I was a hacking group with little interest in Iran,
           | hitting a US-based target...I might make some pro-Iran
           | noises, trying to confuse the attribution. Or to curry favor
           | with China, Russia, NK, ...
           | 
           | (And I'm not ruling out a nation-state actor being directly
           | behind this.)
        
       | juliusceasar wrote:
       | Iran is fighting against ring of Epstein friends.
        
         | klipt wrote:
         | I want American pedos to be brought to justice but let's not
         | forget, in Iran it's legal to marry children so they are
         | actually even worse on this issue.
        
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