{"id":134062,"date":"2025-08-05T18:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T18:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/voice-phishers-strike-again-this-time-hitting-cisco\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T18:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T18:28:10","slug":"voice-phishers-strike-again-this-time-hitting-cisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/voice-phishers-strike-again-this-time-hitting-cisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice phishers strike again, this time hitting Cisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Cisco said that one of its representatives fell victim to a voice phishing attack that allowed threat actors to download profile information belonging to users of a third-party customer relationship management system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur investigation has determined that the exported data primarily consisted of basic account profile information of individuals who registered for a user account on Cisco.com,\u201d the company <a href=\"https:\/\/sec.cloudapps.cisco.com\/security\/center\/resources\/CRM-vishing\">disclosed<\/a>. Information included names, organization names, addresses, Cisco assigned user IDs, email addresses, phone numbers, and account-related metadata such as creation date.<\/p>\n<h2>Et tu, Cisco?<\/h2>\n<p>Cisco said that the breach didn\u2019t expose customers\u2019 confidential or proprietary information, password data, or other sensitive information. The company went on to say that investigators found no evidence that other CRM instances were compromised or that any of its products or services were affected.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2025\/08\/attackers-who-phished-cisco-downloaded-user-data-from-third-party-crm\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2025\/08\/attackers-who-phished-cisco-downloaded-user-data-from-third-party-crm\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco said that one of its representatives fell victim to a voice phishing attack that allowed threat actors to download profile information belonging to users of a third-party customer relationship management system. \u201cOur investigation has determined that the exported data primarily consisted of basic account profile information of individuals who registered for a user account on Cisco.com,\u201d the company disclosed. 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