Okta, a provider of identity and access management solutions, has issued a warning after learning that numerous US-based customers have been the target of sophisticated social engineering attacks.
The business disclosed late last week that the hackers went after IT service desk staff in an effort to persuade them to reactivate multi-factor authentication (MFA) for high-privilege users within the targeted organization.
Okta claimed that the hackers employed novel defense evasion and lateral movement techniques, but it made no mention of the threat actor itself or its intended target.
It’s unclear if the two incidents are connected, but last year, a large number of Okta customers were the target of the financially motivated cybercrime campaign 0ktapus.
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