Analysis of the 2026 Stryker Breach: Weaponizing Cloud Endpoint Management
On March 11, 2026, attackers turned Stryker Corporation's own Microsoft Intune device-management plane into a non-encrypting wiper, factory-resetting roughly 200,000 endpoints across 79 offices worldwide without dropping a single piece of custom malware. This analysis reconstructs the Living-off-the-Land attack chain — from infostealer logs and AiTM session theft through privilege escalation to the Intune control-plane pivot — and shows how SlashID's MITM/AiTM detection, phishing-resistant authentication, behavioral anomaly detection, and just-in-time privileged access stop it.