Many US technology companies are “inquired” by hackers

American technology company Okta has been the target of a cyberattack that threatens to seriously affect a number of customers. Okta is headquartered in San Francisco, providing independent identification, identity management and Internet access services to more than 15,000 customers, including the world’s largest express delivery company FedEx and the company. Moody’s international credit rating. Okta’s competitors in this area are Microsoft, PingID, Duo, SecureAuth and IBM.

In the announcements on March 22, Okta’s Chief Security Officer, David Bradbury, said that in mid-January, the computer of a technical support employee of the company’s Sitel contractor was hacked. hacker penetration in 5 days. Due to the impact of the cyber attack, 366 customers granted access by Sitel may have this permission restricted. The technical staff can help customers reset the password to fix the problem. However, according to Mr. Bradbury, this is the “worst” cybersecurity incident in the company’s history.

Okta’s announcement comes a day after a ransomware group called Lapsus$ posted on its Telegram page a series of screenshots of the company’s internal communications. In the post, Lapsus$ claims the team’s goal is to target Okta customers.

On the same day, March 22, Microsoft software corporation said that a cyberattack linked to the Lapsus$ hacker group gained “limited access” to a single computer network account of the company. However, Microsoft’s security experts intervened in time and handled this attack.

A day earlier, Lapsus$ claimed to have hacked Microsoft’s computer network and obtained part of the source code of Microsoft products including Bing, Bing Maps and Cortana.

Lapsus$, although a relatively new name, has carried out many attacks against major companies in the world. Earlier this year, Portuguese media group Impresa suffered a cyber attack when the group hacked one of its Twitter accounts and tweeted, “Lapsus$ is now the new president.” of Portugal”. Last month, Lapsus$ also revealed exclusive information about US chip maker Nvidia and a number of other technology companies.

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