Search/Google Among Victims in Ongoing Salesforce Data Theft Campaign
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Google Among Victims in Ongoing Salesforce Data Theft Campaign

Google has confirmed that it is among the victims of an ongoing data theft campaign targeting Salesforce instances. The tech giant confirmed that data has been retrieved by the threat actor, however this was largely publicly available business information, such as business names and contact details. The cyber-attack has been linked to ShinyHunters, tracked by the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) as UNC6040 and UN6240. In a blog update published on August 5, Google said, “Google responded to the activity, performed an impact analysis and began mitigations. The instance was used to store contact information and related notes for small and medium businesses.” ShinyHunters is a financially motivated threat cluster that specializes in voice phishing (vishing) campaigns specifically…

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