Companies focusing all their time and energy on making sure everyone can work remotely. Inevitably let their guard down and this happens. If some of their clients got hit by this ransomware attack. These outsourcing companies are gonna take a major hit. Most are too focused on their customers security to worry about their own.
IT services giant Cognizant suffers Maze Ransomware cyber attack
IT services giant Cognizant suffers Maze Ransomware cyber attack
Information technologies services giant Cognizant suffered a cyber attack Friday night allegedly by the operators of the Maze Ransomware, BleepingComputer has learned.
Cognizant is one of the largest IT managed services company in the world with close to 300,000 employees and over $15 billion in revenue.
As part of its operations, Cognizant remotely manages its clients through end-point clients, or agents, that are installed on customer's workstations to push out patches, software updates, and perform remote support services.
On Friday, Cognizant began emailing their clients, stating that they had been compromised and included a "preliminary list of indicators of compromise identified through our investigation." Clients could then use this information to monitor their systems and further secure them.
social engineering. Sounds thrilling, intrinsically-rewarding, and it pays really well. 
