Payroll Pirates: How Storm-2657 Hijacks Paychecks with Phishing and Deception!
Storm-2657 is stealing paychecks, not by hacking systems, but by hacking minds! This sneaky group hijacks employee accounts through social engineering and a lack of multi-factor authentication. Their villainous goal? Divert those hard-earned salaries into their own pockets. Remember, if your paycheck mysteriously disappears, it might be raining Storm-2657!
Hot Take:
Storm-2657 is like the pirate of the digital seas, hijacking paychecks instead of ships! If your salary mysteriously vanished, you might just have been the victim of the modern-day Blackbeard, or should we say “Payroll Pirates”. Time to lock your digital treasure chest with a mighty passwordless, phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA) and save your booty!
Key Points:
- Storm-2657 targets U.S.-based organizations, particularly in higher education, to hijack salaries.
- Campaigns exploit social engineering and lack of multi-factor authentication (MFA) to seize control.
- Phishing emails are used to gain access, with adversary-in-the-middle techniques for MFA codes.
- Threat actors create inbox rules to hide their tracks and distribute further phishing emails.
- Microsoft recommends adopting passwordless, phishing-resistant MFA methods like FIDO2 security keys.
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