{"id":7572,"date":"2025-10-10T10:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/10\/hackers-target-university-hr-employees-in-payroll-pirate-attacks\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:03:15","slug":"hackers-target-university-hr-employees-in-payroll-pirate-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/10\/hackers-target-university-hr-employees-in-payroll-pirate-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft: Hackers target universities in \u201cpayroll pirate\u201d attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Microsoft: Hackers target universities in \u201cpayroll pirate\u201d attacks<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A cybercrime gang tracked as Storm-2657 has been targeting university employees in the United States to hijack salary payments in &#8220;pirate payroll&#8221; attacks since March 2025. [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Sergiu Gatlan<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/hackers-target-university-hr-employees-in-payroll-pirate-attacks\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft: Hackers target universities in \u201cpayroll pirate\u201d attacks A cybercrime gang tracked as Storm-2657 has been targeting university employees in the United States to hijack salary payments in &#8220;pirate payroll&#8221; attacks since March 2025. [&#8230;] Sergiu Gatlan Go to bleepingcomputer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,158,133],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-7572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bleepingcomputer","category-microsoft","category-security","tag-bleepingcomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7572"}],"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=7572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}