Microsoft Warns of Hackers Compromising Employee Accounts to Steal Salary Payments

A sophisticated financially motivated threat actor known as Storm-2657 has been orchestrating elaborate “payroll pirate” attacks targeting US universities and other organizations, Microsoft Threat Intelligence has revealed. These attacks represent a concerning evolution in cybercriminal tactics, where hackers compromise employee accounts to gain unauthorized access to human resources systems and redirect salary payments to attacker-controlled […]

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