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New Salesforce Extortion Campaign Could Impact 1 Billion Records

Cybercriminals connected to a recent string of ransomware attacks on major British retailers have claimed to have stolen nearly 1 billion records from companies that store customer data in cloud databases hosted by Salesforce. The same hacking collective—known by aliases such as Lapsus$, Scattered Spider, and ShinyHunters—launched a dark web site called Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters […]

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Major Amazon AWS outage disrupts numerous popular apps and web services

At least a thousand companies were affected by Monday’s Amazon AWS outage, the largest internet disruption since last year’s CrowdStrike incident, which caused more than 8.5 million systems to crash at several organizations, including many Fortune 1000 companies. The AWS outage affected many popular online services ranging from Alexa, Snapchat and Venmo to gaming platforms

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Salesforce-Linked Data Breach Exposes 1.1M Farmers Insurance Customers, Sparks Lawsuit

A new class action lawsuit against Salesforce alleges that the company failed to secure its systems, leaving sensitive customer data vulnerable to attackers. The legal filing follows confirmation that a third-party data breach—apparently tied to the ongoing Salesforce voice-phishing campaign—compromised the personal information of more than 1.1 million Farmers Insurance customers. The complaint accuses Salesforce

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Cyberattack compromises more than 2.5 billion Gmail users

Google has issued a global security alert following one of the largest breaches in its history. The massive cyberattack has exposed data from more than 2.5 billion Gmail users and compromised a Google database managed through Salesforce’s cloud platform. Hacker group ShinyHunters is behind the breach which security experts are calling one of the largest

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U.S. Public Sector Organizations Hit by Ransomware in 2022

2022 saw the usual rates of public sector organizations in government, education and healthcare hit by ransomware, while the severity increased, according to data from Emisoft.  The public sector organizations hit by ransomware included up to 1,981 schools, 290 hospitals, 105 local governments and 44 universities and colleges were hit with ransomware in the US

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97% of Organizations Invest in Identity-focused Security

The pandemic accelerated the acceptance of cloud-based solutions as remote and hybrid work became commonplace. The remote workforce depends on many cloud-powered services such as Zoom and Slack. While widespread adoption of the cloud infrastructure has accelerated positive business capabilities like agility, scalability, powerful computing and use of SaaS applications, it has also led to

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