Cyber attackers may have targeted IT majors Infosys, Capgemini and Cognizant to
access data of third-party company resources, according to cyber security blog
KrebsOnSecurity, with Capgemini confirming to ET that it faced a pattern of attack similar
to Wipro’s, but took quick remedial action.
KrebsOnSecurity founder Brian Krebs wrote on Friday that the “crooks responsible for launching phishing campaigns” in computer systems of Wipro last month “appear to have targeted” a number of other competing providers.
The blog first reported on Tuesday that Wipro was subject to a systematic attack “over months”, which the company said was a ‘zero-day attack’ that was thwarted and a forensic investigation launched to look into it.
A zero-day attack refers to any cyber attack conducted on the same day that a software vulnerability has been discovered and for which a patch had not been set up to counter effectively.
Capgemini’s internal security centre detected and monitored suspicious activity that showed similar patterns to the attack faced by Wipro, a company spokesperson confirmed in an email to ET.
KrebsOnSecurity founder Brian Krebs wrote on Friday that the “crooks responsible for launching phishing campaigns” in computer systems of Wipro last month “appear to have targeted” a number of other competing providers.
The blog first reported on Tuesday that Wipro was subject to a systematic attack “over months”, which the company said was a ‘zero-day attack’ that was thwarted and a forensic investigation launched to look into it.
A zero-day attack refers to any cyber attack conducted on the same day that a software vulnerability has been discovered and for which a patch had not been set up to counter effectively.
Capgemini’s internal security centre detected and monitored suspicious activity that showed similar patterns to the attack faced by Wipro, a company spokesperson confirmed in an email to ET.
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