SECURITYWEEK reports that Stryker confirmed a March 2026 cybersecurity incident that disrupted operations and will materially affect its first-quarter financial results, though the company has restored global manufacturing and distribution. The same roundup notes a Windows zero-day exploit dubbed BlueHammer that escalates privileges via a race condition in Microsoft Defender, disclosed after a dispute with Microsoft and with Microsoft yet to patch or assign a CVE.
It also covers a claim by a hacker alias FlamingChina of having accessed the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, exfiltrating over 10 petabytes of data over six months and offering samples on Telegram while seeking payment in cryptocurrency. According to SecurityWeek News, the piece emphasises the ongoing investigations into the full extent of Stryker’s data breach and its regulatory implications, alongside the malware disclosures and other related stories in the same roundup.