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Cybercriminals using the trusted brand names to exploit the Remote Worker for access to the login credentials. A few days back, the team observed that the attackers are using the web services and target the audience who are using Microsoft Outlook and Google Docs to harvest the data to do fraud or may plan for big campaigns.

What New happens 

According to the report, From January 1 to April 30, 2020. Google services like file sharing and storage websites and different brand names were around 65% (100,000) being attacked by form-based which makes 4% of all spearing-phishing attacks in the first four months of 2020.

  1. Microsoft brands are also used for impersonation and the number of attacks is a total of 13% of attacks: 6% attacks for the onedrive.live.com, 4% for the sway.office.com, and 3% for forms.office.com.
  2. The Google Service is also used for victimizing let see which services are:Storage.googleapis.com it is around 25%, docs.google.com it is around 13% and drive.google.com is around 4%
  3. The other sites who are popular for some specific services like sendgrid.net are around 10%, mailchimp.com is around 4% and formcrafts.com is around 2% that is also used for impersonation attacks.     

Some other brands

In Between, hackers are using a variety of phishing campaigns to take advantage of the COVID-19 to infect through malware and steal credentials, scams Remote Worker, steal money from the organizations. Till May 2020, the attacker launched different phishing campaigns and many of the users get victimized by them through the brand name.

  1. The cyber attacker also victimized LogMeIn by sending fake emails and directed users to a phishing site to compromise LogMeIn account login credentials.
  2. The attackers also used Azure AD and Microsoft 365 sign-in pages to launch phishing attacks. The attackers a lot more convincing tactics used by the Cyber attackers
  3. The Magellan Health employees are also attacked by the cyber attackers and the client’s data is stolen through malware which included credentials and userid.
  4. The Zoom Phishing campaigns are the latest one which mimicked the meeting notifications from the zoom and stole the Microsoft credentials.
  5. The Microsoft Teams notifications were also victimized by the cyber attackers and send automated notifications to steal the credentials of the relevant accounts.

How to be safe online

After finding all the problems one thing always remembers that never ever visits the insecure website and please check the URL for the basic protection. Don’t respond to any mail immediately and don’t touch the mail link without any familiar.

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Data Breach : 600+ data of NTT Telecom customer are stolen https://vednam.com/data-breach-data-ntt-telecom-customer-stolen/ https://vednam.com/data-breach-data-ntt-telecom-customer-stolen/#comments Sat, 30 May 2020 04:04:11 +0000 https://vednam.com/?p=627 One of the largest telecoms and IT services companies has revealed that the attacker may have stolen the data from the internal system and affected around 600 customers. The NTT Company which is mainly based on Communication and telecom Services. The company also provides cloud, network, and data center services to the biggest companies in […]

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One of the largest telecoms and IT services companies has revealed that the attacker may have stolen the data from the internal system and affected around 600 customers.

The NTT Company which is mainly based on Communication and telecom Services. The company also provides cloud, network, and data center services to the biggest companies in the world.

The parent company.NTT Group Ranked in the top 100 companies in the world.

On Thursday, the company claims that it detected an unauthorized attack on the Active Directory services. 

According to the official statement “When team research about the attack they found the hacker used the diversion to attack the company data breach. The Hackers first hacked the cloud server (Server B ) which is located in the Singapore data center, after that the attackers found the path to attack the internal server (Server A) and that was the admin user database handler server known as Active Directory (AD) Server.

The Attacker did not stop there and they finally compromised the information management server (Server C) that is used for NTT’s cloud and hosting customers.

Server C is the main target for the attacker where they breached and stole data of 621 Customers.

NTT released a press note of the Global threat Intelligence Report  where it was mentioned that the technology sector was the most attacked worldwide in 2019. It also said that the cyber attacker is using multi-function attack tools which are included with artificial intelligence/machine learning capabilities. and use the automation techniques to increase the chance of successful attacks to 21%.

NTT customer data was stolen in May and it was clearly shown the compromise for the server to move inside the company network.

If all the above-claimed statement is right then all Telecomm companies have to worry before the attacker are active on their network. The company needs to find the core security backdoor and minimize the attacks on the user data.

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