Cisco averts cyber disaster after successful phishing attack
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Image credit: Calypso77 – stock.adobe.com. Article by Alex Scroxton. Computer Weekly – August 11, 2022.
Cisco has revealed that it has fought off a potentially damaging cyber incident that unfolded after a threat actor conducted a phishing attack on one of its employees by abusing their personal Google account to access its network. The network hardware supplier said the attacker was likely an initial access broker (IAB) with links to the UNC2447 cyber crime gang, a Chinese ransomware operator known as Yanluowang, and the Lapsus$ group – a gang of teens who abused failings in multifactor authentication (MFA) to target multiple tech companies earlier this year. […]
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