COGNIZANT EMPLOYEES ARE RECEIVING VISHING SCAM CALLS AFTER 300,000 COMPUTERS GOT INFECTED WITH RANSOMWARE

Cybersecurity incidents are so common that sometimes companies face more than one inconvenience at a time. Just a couple of days after revealing a malware infection, the cybersecurity company Cognizant will have to deal with a phone phishing campaign.

After some employees received suspicious phone calls, Cognizant’s cybersecurity team was notified about the incident. It should be remembered that phishing is an attempt to extract personal information through emails and phone calls; perpetrators of these attacks pretend to be representatives of prestigious public or private organizations.

In this case, the attackers presented themselves as a cybersecurity services company capable of mitigating the consequences of the ransomware attack the company suffered in recent days.

In this regard, Karen McLoughlin, CEO of Cognizant, sent a corporate email mentioning the employees: “Our staff is experiencing an active phone phishing attack; to protect our customers and employees, it is vital that you do not follow the instructions provided by any user by telephone. This is an attempt to enter our corporate network, so employees will have to stay alert.”

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