Wipro Intruders Targeted Other Major IT Firms

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 17:42:46 +0000

The criminals responsible for launching phishing campaigns that netted dozens of employees and more than 100 computer systems last month at Wipro, India’s third-largest IT outsourcing firm, also appear to have targeted a number of other competing providers, including Infosys and Cognizant — two other large technology consulting companies, new evidence suggests.

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How Not to Acknowledge a Data Breach

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 17:56:58 +0000

I’m not a huge fan of stories about stories, or those that explore the ins and outs of reporting a breach. But occasionally it seems necessary to publish such accounts when companies respond to a breach report in such a way that it’s crystal clear that they wouldn’t know what to do with a breach if it bit them in the nose, let alone festered unmolested in some dark corner of their operations.

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Experts: Breach at IT Outsourcing Giant Wipro

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 21:19:55 +0000

Indian information technology (IT) outsourcing and consulting giant Wipro [NYSE:WIT] is investigating reports from multiple security experts that Wipro’s systems have been hacked and are being used to launch attacks against the company’s customers, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity. The company has refused to respond to questions about the alleged incident.

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