Investigating targeted “payroll pirate” attacks affecting US universities 

Investigating targeted “payroll pirate” attacks affecting US universities 

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Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified a financially motivated threat actor that we track as Storm-2657 compromising employee accounts to gain unauthorized access to employee profiles and divert salary payments to attacker-controlled accounts, attacks that have been dubbed “payroll pirate”.
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