Why India’s trojan menace will only increase

Bengaluru/New Delhi: On Tuesday, Indian IT service company Wipro Ltd. confirmed reports about a phishing attack on its IT systems even as it hired an independent forensic firm to assist with the investigation. The breach was first reported by cybersecurity portal, KrebsOnSecurity, after it was brought to their attention by two sources on the condition of anonymity.

Only a day earlier, a researcher John Page revealed that hackers can use an unpatched exploit in Internet Explorer (IE) to both spy on Windows users and steal their local data . In fact, email accounts across Microsoft’s Outlook, Hotmail and MSN services were left vulnerable for almost three months (1 January to 28 March) even as Microsoft said that only a “limited” number of people had their accounts compromised in the breach.