By therecord.media
Publication Date: 2026-03-19 15:59:00
Federal cybersecurity agencies urged organizations to better protect their deployment of a crucial Microsoft tool designed to manage all of the devices within a company’s network following an alleged Iran-connected cyberattack on a Michigan medical device company.
The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released an advisory on Wednesday night confirming their involvement in the response to the recent attack on Stryker — a large healthcare technology firm that has struggled for more than a week to recover from an attack where more than 200,000 company devices were wiped clean.
The attackers did not use malware, instead breaking into a legitimate Microsoft device management system called Intune and wiping the company’s data that way. CISA urged companies that use Intune to follow Microsoft’s newly-released best practices and to “harden endpoint management system configurations.”
The advisories say Intune customers should use role-based…