{"id":45212,"date":"2023-11-13T16:16:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T16:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/okta-warns-scammers-are-going-after-super-admin-privileges\/"},"modified":"2023-11-13T16:16:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T16:16:17","slug":"okta-warns-scammers-are-going-after-super-admin-privileges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/tech\/okta-warns-scammers-are-going-after-super-admin-privileges\/","title":{"rendered":"Okta warns scammers are going after super admin privileges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Image credit: Shutterstock) Criminals have been targeting Okta\u2019s clients in an attempt to gain access to accounts with administrator privileges.&#8221;In recent weeks, multiple U.S.-based Okta customers have reported a consistent pattern of social engineering attacks against IT service desk personnel, in which the caller&#8217;s strategy was to convince service desk personnel to reset all multi-factor authentication (MFA) factors enrolled by highly privileged users,&#8221; 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