ShinyHunters
Meet ShinySp1d3r: New Ransomware-as-a-Service created by ShinyHunters
An in-development build of the upcoming ShinySp1d3r ransomware-as-a-service platform has surfaced, offering a preview of the upcoming extortion operation. ShinySp1d3r is the name of an emerging RaaS created by threat actors associated with the ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider extortion groups. These threat actors have traditionally used other ransomware gangs’ encryptors in attacks, including ALPHV/BlackCat, Qilin, RansomHub, and DragonForce, but […]
Checkout.com snubs hackers after data breach, to donate ransom instead
UK financial technology company Checkout announced that the ShinyHunters threat group has breached one of its legacy cloud storage systems and is now extorting the company for a ransom. The company says that although the stolen data affects a significant portion of its merchant base, it will not pay a ransom and will instead invest […]
Salesforce refuses to pay ransom over widespread data theft attacks
Salesforce has confirmed that it will not negotiate with or pay a ransom to the threat actors behind a massive wave of data theft attacks that impacted the company’s customers this year. As first reported by Bloomberg, Salesforce emailed customers on Tuesday to say they would not be paying a ransom and warned that “credible threat […]
Red Hat data breach escalates as ShinyHunters joins extortion
Enterprise software giant Red Hat is now being extorted by the ShinyHunters gang, with samples of stolen customer engagement reports (CERs) leaked on their data leak site. News of the Red Hat data breach broke last week when a hacking group known as the Crimson Collective claimed to have stolen nearly 570GB of compressed data across 28,000 internal development […]
Oracle patches EBS zero-day exploited in Clop data theft attacks
Oracle is warning about a critical E-Business Suite zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-61882 that allows attackers to perform unauthenticated remote code execution, with the flaw actively exploited in Clop data theft attacks. The flaw is within the Oracle Concurrent Processing product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: BI Publisher Integration) and has a CVSS base score of 9.8, […]
ShinyHunters launches Salesforce data leak site to extort 39 victims
An extortion group has launched a new data leak site to publicly extort dozens of companies impacted by a wave of Salesforce breaches, leaking samples of data stolen in the attacks. The threat actors responsible for these attacks claim to be part of the ShinyHunters, Scattered Spider, and Lapsus$ groups, collectively referring to themselves as “Scattered Lapsus$ […]
Automaker giant Stellantis confirms data breach after Salesforce hack
Automotive manufacturing giant Stellantis has confirmed that attackers stole some of its North American customers’ data after gaining access to a third-party service provider’s platform. Stellantis is a multinational corporation formed in 2021 after the merger of the PSA Group (Peugeot Société Anonyme) and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA). Stellantis is currently one of the largest […]
ShinyHunters claims 1.5 billion Salesforce records stolen in Drift hacks
The ShinyHunters extortion group claims to have stolen over 1.5 billion Salesforce records from 760 companies using compromised Salesloft Drift OAuth tokens. For the past year, the threat actors have been targeting Salesforce customers in data theft attacks using social engineering and malicious OAuth applications to breach Salesforce instances and download data. The stolen data is then used […]
Google confirms fraudulent account created in law enforcement portal
Google has confirmed that hackers created a fraudulent account in its Law Enforcement Request System (LERS) platform that law enforcement uses to submit official data requests to the company “We have identified that a fraudulent account was created in our system for law enforcement requests and have disabled the account,” Google told GeekFeed. “No requests […]
FBI warns of UNC6040, UNC6395 hackers stealing Salesforce data
The FBI has issued a FLASH alert warning that two threat clusters, tracked as UNC6040 and UNC6395, are compromising organizations’ Salesforce environments to steal data and extort victims. “The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is releasing this FLASH to disseminate Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) associated with recent malicious cyber activities by cyber criminal groups UNC6040 […]