{"id":915024,"date":"2025-03-18T11:17:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T05:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=915024"},"modified":"2025-03-18T11:17:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T05:47:20","slug":"fbi-has-a-hacker-warning-for-gmail-microsoft-outlook-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/18\/fbi-has-a-hacker-warning-for-gmail-microsoft-outlook-users\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI has a \u2018hacker\u2019 warning for Gmail, Microsoft Outlook users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have warned Gmail and Microsoft Outlook users about a dangerous ransomware scheme. Earlier this week, the US government agencies issued a warning regarding Medusa, a ransomware-as-a-service software responsible for attacks since 2021, which has recently impacted hundreds of individuals. CISA reports that Medusa primarily employs phishing campaigns to steal victims&#8217; credentials. Some of the recommendations that the agencies offered to protect against this ransomware include patching operating systems and keeping devices updated, using multi-factor authentication for services like email and VPNs, using strong passwords and avoiding frequent password changes<\/p>\n<p>What the FBI said about Medusa ransomware<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have warned Gmail and Microsoft Outlook users about a dangerous ransomware scheme. Earlier this week, the US government agencies issued a warning regarding Medusa, a ransomware-as-a-service software responsible for attacks since 2021, which has recently impacted hundreds of individuals. CISA reports that Medusa primarily employs phishing campaigns to steal victims&#8217; credentials. Some of the recommendations that the agencies offered to protect against this ransomware include patching operating systems and keeping devices updated, using multi-factor authentication for services like email and VPNs, using strong passwords and avoiding frequent password changes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915024","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}