IKEA is apparently under a cyberattack that is affecting it’s email systems. Bleeping Computer has the details:
In internal emails seen by BleepingComputer, IKEA is warning employees of an ongoing reply-chain phishing cyber-attack targeting internal mailboxes. These emails are also being sent from other compromised IKEA organizations and business partners.
“There is an ongoing cyber-attack that is targeting Inter IKEA mailboxes. Other IKEA organisations, suppliers, and business partners are compromised by the same attack and are further spreading malicious emails to persons in Inter IKEA,” explained an internal email sent to IKEA employees and seen by BleepingComputer.
“This means that the attack can come via email from someone that you work with, from any external organisation, and as a reply to an already ongoing conversations. It is therefore difficult to detect, for which we ask you to be extra cautious.”
IKEA IT teams warn employees that the reply-chain emails contain links with seven digits at the end and shared an example email, as shown below. In addition, employees are told not to open the emails, regardless of who sent them, and to report them to the IT department immediately.
Recipients are also told to tell the sender of the emails via Microsoft Teams chat to report the emails.
Attacks like this are crippling and difficult to resolve. The best advice that I can give is to stop attacks like these before they start. That means having a layered set of defences from software to user training to make sure that you don’t become the next IKEA.
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IKEA Email Systems Hit By Ongoing Cyberattack
IKEA is apparently under a cyberattack that is affecting it’s email systems. Bleeping Computer has the details:
In internal emails seen by BleepingComputer, IKEA is warning employees of an ongoing reply-chain phishing cyber-attack targeting internal mailboxes. These emails are also being sent from other compromised IKEA organizations and business partners.
“There is an ongoing cyber-attack that is targeting Inter IKEA mailboxes. Other IKEA organisations, suppliers, and business partners are compromised by the same attack and are further spreading malicious emails to persons in Inter IKEA,” explained an internal email sent to IKEA employees and seen by BleepingComputer.
“This means that the attack can come via email from someone that you work with, from any external organisation, and as a reply to an already ongoing conversations. It is therefore difficult to detect, for which we ask you to be extra cautious.”
IKEA IT teams warn employees that the reply-chain emails contain links with seven digits at the end and shared an example email, as shown below. In addition, employees are told not to open the emails, regardless of who sent them, and to report them to the IT department immediately.
Recipients are also told to tell the sender of the emails via Microsoft Teams chat to report the emails.
Attacks like this are crippling and difficult to resolve. The best advice that I can give is to stop attacks like these before they start. That means having a layered set of defences from software to user training to make sure that you don’t become the next IKEA.
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