More IT companies could have faced cyber attack, says blog

Cyber attackers may have targeted IT majors Infosys, Capgemini and Cognizant to access data of third-party company resources, according to cyber security blog KrebsOnSecurity, with Capgemini confirming to ET that it faced a pattern of attack similar to Wipro’s, but took quick remedial action.

KrebsOnSecurity founder Brian Krebs wrote on Friday that the “crooks responsible for launching phishing campaigns” in computer systems of Wipro last month “appear to have targeted” a number of other competing providers.

The blog first reported on Tuesday that Wipro was subject to a systematic attack “over months”, which the company said was a ‘zero-day attack’ that was thwarted and a forensic investigation launched to look into it.