{"id":4181,"date":"2025-05-24T02:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T02:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/3am-ransomware-attack-poses-as-a-call-from-it-support-to-compromise-networks\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T02:00:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T02:00:05","slug":"3am-ransomware-attack-poses-as-a-call-from-it-support-to-compromise-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/3am-ransomware-attack-poses-as-a-call-from-it-support-to-compromise-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"3AM ransomware attack poses as a call from IT support to compromise networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    3AM ransomware attack poses as a call from IT support to compromise networks<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Cybercriminals are getting smarter. Not by developing new types of malware or exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities, but by simply pretending to be helpful IT support desk workers.<\/p>\n<p>Find out how they do it in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tripwire.com\/state-of-security\/3am-ransomware-attackers-pose-it-support-compromise-networks\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3AM ransomware attack poses as a call from IT support to compromise networks Cybercriminals are getting smarter. Not by developing new types of malware or exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities, but by simply pretending to be helpful IT support desk workers. Find out how they do it in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1326,156,154,54,155,258,231,1307],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-4181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3am","category-data-breach","category-data-loss","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-malware","category-ransomware","category-vishing","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}