{"id":1026578,"date":"2026-08-06T08:05:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T02:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026578"},"modified":"2026-08-06T08:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T03:26:35","slug":"major-wall-street-firms-targeted-in-attempted-cyberattacks-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/06\/major-wall-street-firms-targeted-in-attempted-cyberattacks-sources-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Wall Street firms targeted in attempted cyberattacks, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers attempted a series of \u200bsophisticated cyberattacks on major Wall Street financial services firms and money managers in recent days, targeting their information systems, according to two people familiar with the \u200cmatter. <\/p>\n<p>Some of \u2060the \u2060world&#8217;s largest hedge funds along with several private equity firms were targeted, the \u200bsources said, requesting anonymity as the matter is confidential. <\/p>\n<p>The hacking attempts featured phone \u200bcalls in which cybercriminals tried to trick employees into granting them access or handing over other sensitive information, the sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers attempted a series of \u200bsophisticated cyberattacks on major Wall Street financial services firms and money managers in recent days, targeting their information systems, according to two people familiar with the \u200cmatter. Some of \u2060the \u2060world&#8217;s largest hedge funds along with several private equity firms were targeted, the \u200bsources said, requesting anonymity as the matter is confidential. The hacking attempts featured phone \u200bcalls in which cybercriminals tried to trick employees into granting them access or handing over other sensitive information, the sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026597,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026578\/revisions\/1026597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}