28 Jul, 2026

Google: Hackers target Salesforce accounts in data extortion attacks

Google has observed hackers claiming to be the ShinyHunters extortion group conducting social engineering attacks against multi-national companies to steal data from organizations’ Salesforce platforms. According to Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), which tracks the threat cluster as ‘UNC6040,’  the attacks target English-speaking employees with voice phishing attacks to trick them into connecting a modified […]

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