Indian outsourcing giant Wipro confirms elimination of phishers from systems • The Register

The Indian computer outsourcing giant Wipro admitted this morning to be the victim of a sophisticated phishing attack.

The company confirmed to Reuters: "We have detected potentially abnormal activity in a few employee accounts in our network due to an advanced phishing campaign."

The security blogger, KrebsonSecurity, yesterday quoted unnamed sources as saying that the attack on his systems was then used to target at least a dozen Wipro customers.

We specifically questioned the IT services giant about these allegations, but he would only comment on what he called "abnormal activity" in "a few employee accounts," saying: The reg"As soon as we learned about the incident, we quickly opened an investigation, identified the affected users and took corrective action to contain and mitigate any potential impact."

The news comes just in time for the company's fourth quarter results to be released later today. Analysts expect a margin reduction and revenue growth of 1%. Last year, the group had sales of $ 2.1 billion in the fourth quarter, most of which came from the computer services industry. It is also a reseller of internally packaged desktops, servers, laptops, storage products, network solutions and software packages, which are nested in computer products.

Wipro employs approximately 160,000 people worldwide and counts many of the largest public sector companies and organizations as clients.

In the United Kingdom, he provides IT consulting and outsourcing services to the public sector, energy, utilities and manufacturing in East Kilbride, a developer hub in Edinburgh and a head office in London. He has contracts with North Lanarkshire and the Highland Council, among others. It offers a multitude of services and infrastructure through the UK.gov G-Cloud 10 framework.

Last year, the company had to pay more than $ 75 million after a mbadive SAP upgrade to the US National Grid. The company said in a deposit with the Bombay Stock Exchange at the time that the settlement did not mean that he had acknowledged his fault. ®

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