Only a skeleton staff will return to Stryker’s Cork sites on Friday after an Iranian-linked cyber attack infiltrated its IT systems on Wednesday. A skeleton staff is due to work on Friday in the organisation, which employs more than 56,000 people globally. But progress on restoring the network was made on Wednesday night, Stryker told staff. It said that the Stryker attack was in retaliation for the “brutal attack on the Minab school” in Iran, which killed more than 175 civilians, many of them children. The attack on Stryker was a wiper attack, which aims to destroy IT systems and their data.

Source: Irish Examiner March 12, 2026 21:14 UTC