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Sunday, August 16, 2026 Issue #1  ·  Est. 2025
Independent brief for device makers
Section 04 // Incidents · Actors · IOCs

Threat Intel

Active exploitation, ransomware activity, and incident reporting across clinical environments.

Latest Filings

20 stories on file
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Threat Intel

A scam on one employee opened Cook Medical’s customer records

Cook Medical disclosed on August 13 that a social engineering attack on July 2 gave an outside party access to customer contact information, employee names and emails, Salesforce communication records, and internal business files. The company says it contained the access the same day and found no evidence that protected data was reached.

MedTech Dive3 days ago2 min read
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AI Security

CHAI convenes health AI cybersecurity work group, playbooks due by year end

The Coalition for Health AI convened a cybersecurity work group of nearly 100 members on August 12. A defensive playbook, an offensive playbook, and a frontier AI risk assessment tool are due by end of 2026. Health-ISAC and Johns Hopkins sit on the council of 14.

PR Newswire4 days ago2 min read
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Threat Intel

Four months later, Stryker is still working off the backlog

Second-quarter revenue grew 9.4 percent, but the beds business is still digging out from the March outage and the backlog will not reach a manageable level until the end of the third quarter.

MedTech DiveJul 312 min read
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Threat Intel

A breach landed inside Abbott’s $21 billion cancer diagnostics buy

Abbott disclosed unauthorized access to a limited number of internal systems in its cancer diagnostics business, months after closing the $21 billion Exact Sciences acquisition. It has not said what was taken.

MedTech DiveJul 172 min read
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Threat Intel

Medtronic’s corporate breach moves to the notification phase

Two months after an 8-K disclosed unauthorized access to corporate IT systems, Medtronic began notifying affected people. The company reports no product, patient safety or manufacturing impact and no sign of the data online.

MedTech DiveJul 22 min read
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Threat Intel

When 75,000 firewalls leak, even the unaffected have to answer for it

Roche published its response to the FortiBleed exposure of roughly 75,000 internet-facing Fortinet firewalls, assessing its environment and reporting no product impact. The advisory itself is the point.

Roche DiagnosticsJun 302 min read
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Threat Intel

iRhythm’s breach lived in third-party business apps

A social engineering attack on third-party-hosted applications exposed patient health information and company data, followed by a payment demand. Device systems and clinical operations stayed clean.

MedTech DiveJun 162 min read
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Threat Intel

Stryker held its guidance after a quarter it would rather forget

First-quarter sales grew 2.6 percent against a March attack that wiped 40,000 laptops and stalled shipping for weeks. One analyst put the miss near $317 million. The full-year outlook did not move.

MedTech DiveMay 13 min read
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Threat Intel

The FBI's 2025 report puts healthcare first in ransomware complaints

The FBI IC3 2025 report recorded 278 ransomware complaints from healthcare, the most of any critical infrastructure sector, and flagged a troubling uptick in AI-enabled cybercrime.

FBI IC3Apr 82 min read
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Threat Intel

Forescout added DICOM gateways to its riskiest-devices list

Forescout's 2026 Riskiest Connected Devices report added medication dispensing systems, medical image printers and DICOM gateways, and found healthcare has the highest prevalence of legacy Windows of any sector.

ForescoutMar 233 min read
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Threat Intel

A wiper ran through Stryker’s own device management console

Stryker identified a cyberattack on March 11. Researchers say the attacker used admin access to Microsoft Intune to push wipe commands across phones and workstations, and CISA wants every operator to harden that layer now.

MedTech DiveMar 193 min read
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Threat Intel

Phishing reached the da Vinci maker’s back office

Intuitive Surgical said an unauthorized third party got at customer business and contact information along with employee and corporate data after a phishing incident.

MedTech DiveMar 132 min read
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Threat Intel

A contract manufacturer’s incident becomes its customers’ delay

UFP Technologies, which makes components and finished devices for medtech OEMs, is investigating a cyberattack that touched company data and warned of short-term shipment delays.

MedTech DiveFeb 272 min read
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Threat Intel

455 healthcare ransomware incidents in 2025, and executives fear AI next

Health-ISAC counted 455 ransomware incidents against healthcare in 2025, named Qilin, INC Ransom and SafePay among the most active, and reported executives rank AI-enabled attacks as the top emerging concern.

Health-ISACJan 263 min read
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Threat Intel

Akira crossed $244 million in ransoms, with healthcare in the target set

An updated FBI and CISA advisory put Akira ransomware proceeds past $244 million since 2023, detailing VPN logins without MFA and encryption of VMware ESXi and Nutanix virtual machines.

HIPAA JournalNov 143 min read
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Threat Intel

The F5 breach became a hospital problem inside 24 hours

CISA issued Emergency Directive 26-01 after F5 disclosed a nation-state actor had stolen BIG-IP source code and undisclosed vulnerability data. The AHA told hospitals to act, calling the gear ubiquitous in healthcare.

American Hospital AssociationOct 163 min read
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AI Threat

An AI ran the whole extortion operation, and healthcare was on the list

Anthropic disclosed an operation where an attacker used an AI coding agent to automate reconnaissance, intrusion, data theft and ransom notes against at least 17 organizations, including healthcare.

AnthropicAug 273 min read
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Threat Intel

Researchers found 1.2 million healthcare devices exposed online, images and all

Modat, working with Health-ISAC and Z-CERT, found over 1.2 million internet-connected healthcare devices exposed online. Some served live MRI and chest images tagged with patient names.

ModatAug 73 min read
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Threat Intel

Masimo shipped through its cyberattack, three weeks in

The patient monitoring company said the attack that hit its ability to fulfill orders will not stop fulfillment going forward and will not move its updated outlook.

MedTech DiveMay 292 min read
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Threat Intel

Attackers are shipping malware dressed up as a Philips DICOM viewer

Philips warned that malware is circulating impersonating its legitimate DICOM Viewer software. Not a product flaw, a brand-impersonation threat that turns your download page into an attacker channel.

Philips Product SecurityFeb 262 min read