Mark Puckett 🇺🇸
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Mark Puckett 🇺🇸
@Mpuckett
Leading our awesome cybersecurity team at @RaxisOne | Building cool tech in ATL!

🛑 ALERT - A new flaw in #Ubuntu 24.04+ lets attackers gain full root access from low privileges. By timing system cleanup, they replace a snap directory and execute code as root—no user action required. 🔗 Exploit steps and patched versions → thehackernews.com/2026/03/ubuntu…


🦔 Medical technology giant Stryker is offline after an Iranian-linked hacktivist group called Handala deployed wiper malware across its network. The attackers claim they stole 50 terabytes of data and wiped over 200,000 systems, servers, and mobile devices, forcing offices in 79 countries to shut down. Employees report devices were remotely wiped in the middle of the night through the company's mobile device management system, including personal phones enrolled for work access. Stryker filed an 8-K with the SEC confirming a global disruption to its Microsoft environment and says it has no timeline for restoration. My Take Stryker makes surgical equipment, neurotechnology, cardiac monitors, stretchers used in ambulances. EMS workers are already reporting they can't transmit patient data to hospitals, and when a medic calls in with a weird EKG and the doctor can't see it, that's a gap where people can die. Offices in 79 countries are reverting to pen and paper for medical device operations while tensions with Iran are at a peak and Hormuz is closed. The attack vector appears to be Microsoft Intune, the mobile device management system. Hackers got in, pushed a mass wipe to every enrolled device, and took down the whole company. I wrote about the cybersecurity selloff a few weeks ago when the sector was getting hammered despite obvious escalating threats, and this is exactly the scenario that made that selloff look insane. Companies have been cutting security budgets and offshoring security roles for years because it looked like an easy place to save money. You can move the labor overseas but you can't move the consequences when Iranian hackers wipe your entire infrastructure in one night. Hedgie🤗

























