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What the Stryker Cyber Incident Reveals About Todays Risk, Visibility, and Hardening

In March 2026, Stryker Corporation experienced a global cyber incident that disrupted operations across its environment. Manufacturing slowed, internal systems went offline, and employees were instructed to disconnect devices. At first glance, it looked like another large-scale cyberattack. It wasn’t. This incident exposed a much more important reality about modern cybersecurity risk: organizations are no longer being breached in traditional ways.

What is a zero-day attack and how can you defend against one?

Zero-day vulnerability: A security flaw in software, hardware, or firmware that is unknown to the vendor responsible for fixing it. Because no patch exists, the flaw is exploitable from the moment it is discovered by an attacker. Zero-day exploit: The specific technique, code, or method an attacker uses to take advantage of a zero-day vulnerability. A single vulnerability may have multiple exploits.

Why Every Industry Now Needs Cybersecurity Leaders

Cyberattacks are no longer rare events that only affect large tech firms. Many businesses today face constant attempts to access their systems, steal data, or disrupt operations. Even in growing cities like Wilmington, NC, where small businesses, startups, and universities are expanding their digital presence, this risk is becoming part of everyday business reality. Many organizations still rely only on technical teams to handle security, but that approach often falls short. Decisions about risk, spending, and response need leadership involvement.

The NotPetya attack: What it teaches us about cyber survival

In June 2017, the world witnessed one of the most destructive cyberattacks in history: the NotPetya attack. Unlike traditional ransomware, NotPetya was a wiper. Once it infected a system, recovery was impossible. The ransom demand was a ruse because no decryption keys were ever made available. The true intent of the attackers was to cause disruption and damage. Nearly a decade later, NotPetya is considered a turning point in how organizations approach backup and recovery. The threat has only grown.

TeamPCP Supply Chain Attack Campaign Targets Trivy, Checkmarx (KICS), and LiteLLM (Potential Downstream Impact to Additional Projects)

The threat actor TeamPCP has recently launched a coordinated campaign targeting security tools and open-source developer infrastructure by pivoting with stolen CI/CD secrets and signing credentials (such as GitHub Actions tokens and release signing keys). At the time of writing, repositories for Trivy, Checkmarx, and LiteLLM have been impacted, and reports indicate that at least 1,000 enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) environments may be affected by this threat campaign.

How To Protect Patient Data From Phishing Attacks

According to HIPAA Journal, phishing remains one of the most common and effective attack methods used against healthcare organizations and is a leading cause of healthcare data breaches. As healthcare becomes more digital, cybercriminals increasingly target clinicians and administrative staff to access Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and other Protected Health Information (PHI).

The Hidden Third-Party Risks Behind Domain Hijacking

Domains are foundational to digital trust. You visit your favorite online store or log in to your email without thinking twice about the web address in your browser. But what happens if that domain has been hijacked and you have just entered your personal information into an attacker’s trap?

CanisterWorm: The Self-Spreading npm Attack That Uses a Decentralized Server to Stay Alive

On March 20, 2026 at 20:45 UTC, Aikido Security detected an unusual pattern across the npm registry: dozens of packages from multiple organizations were receiving unauthorized patch updates, all containing the same hidden malicious code. What they had caught was CanisterWorm, a self-spreading npm worm deployed by the threat actor group TeamPCP. We track this incident as MSC-2026-3271.