{"id":7593,"date":"2025-10-11T07:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T07:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/11\/microsoft-warns-of-payroll-pirates-html\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T07:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T07:06:15","slug":"microsoft-warns-of-payroll-pirates-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/11\/microsoft-warns-of-payroll-pirates-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Warns of \u2018Payroll Pirates\u2019 Hijacking HR SaaS Accounts to Steal Employee Salaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Microsoft Warns of \u2018Payroll Pirates\u2019 Hijacking HR SaaS Accounts to Steal Employee Salaries<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A threat actor known as Storm-2657 has been observed hijacking employee accounts with the end goal of diverting salary payments to attacker-controlled accounts.<br \/>\n&#8220;Storm-2657 is actively targeting a range of U.S.-based organizations, particularly employees in sectors like higher education, to gain access to third-party human resources (HR) software as a service (SaaS) platforms like Workday,&#8221; the<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/10\/microsoft-warns-of-payroll-pirates.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Warns of \u2018Payroll Pirates\u2019 Hijacking HR SaaS Accounts to Steal Employee Salaries A threat actor known as Storm-2657 has been observed hijacking employee accounts with the end goal of diverting salary payments to attacker-controlled accounts. &#8220;Storm-2657 is actively targeting a range of U.S.-based organizations, particularly employees in sectors like higher education, to gain access [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-7593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593"}],"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=7593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}