I didn’t know that was even technically possible. (but then I’m not a computer geek).
I didn’t know that was even technically possible. (but then I’m not a computer geek).
Most businesses now have their phone system, VOIP, integrated with their E mail system.
If someone leaves you a VM, it is sent to your email as an attachment, an audio file.
Everything’s just a file (long string of bits) in one of several formats.
VM is stored digitally. For a org that size they probably have a VoIP phone system, possibly tied in with their email and computer system.
Voice mail and email are separate server based systems. If they can hack email servers I am not surprised they could hack voice mail servers.
A harder challenge would be to hack into real-time voice systems. Even if they did they could only grab what voice calls are served by that system and active at the time they are in the system. They could stay logged in to grab more calls but that would only work if they had a known login that would not be suspicous. Usually SecureID or equivalent is used for remote access authentication so I don't know how they would even get in to a real-time phone system. But these are the Russians after all
They are using VOIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol - VM’s go to the email address.