{"id":968006,"date":"2025-10-16T11:19:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=968006"},"modified":"2025-10-16T11:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:49:15","slug":"looting-us-university-salaries-microsoft-warns-of-payroll-pirate-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/16\/looting-us-university-salaries-microsoft-warns-of-payroll-pirate-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Looting US university salaries&#8217;: Microsoft warns of &#8216;payroll pirate&#8217; scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Threat Intelligence team has sounded the alarm, reason is: A notorious cybercrime group, tracked as Storm-2657 by Microsoft\u2019s team, has launched a brazen attack on US university payroll systems since March 2025. In a blog post, Redmond said a cybercrime crew it tracks as Storm-2657 has been targeting university employees since March 2025, hijacking salaries by breaking into HR software such as Workday.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed &#8220;payroll pirate&#8221; by Microsoft\u2019s Threat Intelligence team, the campaign exploits weak security practices to redirect paychecks into attacker-controlled bank accounts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Threat Intelligence team has sounded the alarm, reason is: A notorious cybercrime group, tracked as Storm-2657 by Microsoft\u2019s team, has launched a brazen attack on US university payroll systems since March 2025. In a blog post, Redmond said a cybercrime crew it tracks as Storm-2657 has been targeting university employees since March 2025, hijacking salaries by breaking into HR software such as Workday. Dubbed &#8220;payroll pirate&#8221; by Microsoft\u2019s Threat Intelligence team, the campaign exploits weak security practices to redirect paychecks into attacker-controlled bank accounts.<\/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-968006","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\/968006","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=968006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}