The conflict is now having a meaningful impact on the UK's National Health Service. A few weeks ago, the medical device maker Stryker, was hit by a global cyber attack, hitting its Microsoft business services (an interesting approach; in Stryker, employees sync their phones with the company's systems. The attackers used a vulnerability to factory reset every single device, including employee phones, in Styker's network). Stryker lost the ability to order things, to process customer orders, to manage inventory, to make things. As a result, the NHS is down to less than 2 weeks supply of essential devices, particularly in orthopedics and neurovascular. As of about 12 hours ago, it seem that Stryker is gradually resuming production, but there will be a ripply effect. The US is being a bit more quiet, but Bloomberg had reported a week ago, that children in the US, facing life preserving surgery, were seeing their surgeries being canceled as a result. The NHS is coordinating its emergency response. https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/stryker-medical-cyber-attack-disruption-supply-medical-equipment-consumables/ Latest sitrep https://www.supplychain.nhs.uk/icn/supply-issues-stryker-cyber-attack/ Intuitive Surgical was hit about the same time, but their systems were less connected, and so the impacts were not so great. Additionally, Intuitive produce a more narrow range of devices, mainly robotic surgery.
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