All news in category "Incidents and Data Breaches"

Azure AD Client Credentials Exposed in Public appsettings

🔒 Resecurity’s HUNTER Team discovered that ClientId and ClientSecret values were inadvertently left in a publicly accessible appsettings.json file, exposing Azure AD credentials. These secrets permit direct authentication against Microsoft’s OAuth 2.0 endpoints and could allow attackers to impersonate trusted applications and access Microsoft 365 data. The exposed credentials could be harvested by automated bots or targeted adversaries. Organizations are advised to remove hardcoded secrets, rotate compromised credentials immediately, restrict public access to configuration files and adopt centralized secrets management such as Azure Key Vault.

Jaguar Land Rover Cyberattack Severely Disrupts Production

🔒 Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) said a cyberattack forced the company to proactively shut down multiple systems to mitigate impact. The incident, reported over the weekend, has severely disrupted retail and production operations, including systems at the Solihull plant. JLR stated there is no evidence that customer data was stolen and is working to restart global applications in a controlled manner.

Jaguar Land Rover Cyber Incident Disrupts Sales & Production

🔒 JLR has disclosed a cyber incident that has severely disrupted global sales and production. The company said it proactively shut down systems and is working to restart applications in a controlled manner. At this stage there is no evidence customer data has been stolen, but retail and manufacturing activities remain affected. Tata Motors disclosed related "global IT issues" to investors.

Pennsylvania AG Office Confirms Ransomware Caused Outage

🔒 The Office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General confirmed a ransomware attack is behind a two-week service outage that has taken its public website offline and disrupted email and phone systems. Attorney General David W. Sunday Jr. said the office refused to pay the extortionists and that an active investigation with other agencies is ongoing. Partial recovery of email and phones has allowed staff to work via alternate channels while courts issue filing extensions. No group has claimed responsibility and the office has not yet confirmed any data exfiltration.

Drift–Salesforce OAuth Attack: Rethink SaaS Security

🔒 A sophisticated adversary exploited legitimate OAuth tokens issued to Salesloft's Drift chatbot integration with Salesforce, using the connection to silently exfiltrate customer data between August 8–18, 2025, according to Google Threat Intelligence Group. The campaign, attributed to UNC6395, leveraged trust in third-party integrations and service-to-service tokens to maintain covert access. Organizations should reassess OAuth governance, entitlement controls, and logging for SaaS integrations to reduce exposure.

Palo Alto Networks Salesforce Breach Exposes Customer Data

🔒 Palo Alto Networks confirmed a Salesforce data breach after attackers abused OAuth tokens stolen in the Salesloft Drift supply-chain incident to access its CRM. The intruders exfiltrated business contact, account records and support Case data, which in some instances contained sensitive IT details and passwords. Palo Alto says products and services were not affected, tokens were revoked, and credentials rotated.

Palo Alto Networks Salesforce Breach Exposes Support Data

🔒 Palo Alto Networks confirmed a Salesforce CRM breach after attackers used compromised OAuth tokens from the Salesloft Drift incident to access its instance. The intrusion was limited to Salesforce and exposed business contacts, account records and portions of support cases; technical attachments were not accessed. The company quickly disabled the app, revoked tokens and said Unit 42 found no impact to products or services.

Palo Alto Networks Response to Salesloft/Drift Breach

🔐 Palo Alto Networks confirmed last week that a breach of Salesloft’s Drift third‑party application allowed unauthorized access to customer Salesforce data, affecting hundreds of organizations including Palo Alto Networks. We immediately disconnected the vendor integration from our Salesforce environment and directed Unit 42 to lead a comprehensive investigation. The investigation found the incident was isolated to our CRM platform; no Palo Alto Networks products or services were impacted, and exposed data primarily included business contact information, internal sales account records and basic case data. We are proactively contacting a limited set of customers who may have had more sensitive data exposed and have made support available through our customer support channels.

Salesloft–Drift OAuth Abuse Targets Salesforce Data

⚠️ Unit 42 observed a campaign that abused the Salesloft Drift integration using compromised OAuth credentials to access and exfiltrate data from customer Salesforce instances. The actor performed large-scale extraction of objects including Account, Contact, Case and Opportunity records and scanned harvested data for credentials. Salesloft revoked tokens and notified affected customers; organizations should immediately review logs, rotate exposed credentials and hunt for the provided IoCs.

Ukrainian AS FDN3 Linked to Massive Brute-Force Attacks

🔒 Intrinsec reports that Ukraine-based autonomous system FDN3 (AS211736) conducted widespread brute-force and password-spraying campaigns targeting SSL VPN and RDP endpoints between June and July 2025, with activity peaking July 6–8. The firm links FDN3 to two other Ukrainian ASes (AS61432, AS210950) and a Seychelles operator (AS210848) that frequently exchange IPv4 prefixes to evade blocklisting. Intrinsec highlights ties to bulletproof hosting providers and a Russian-associated Alex Host LLC, stressing that offshore peering arrangements complicate attribution and takedown efforts.

Ransomware Gang Targets AWO Karlsruhe-Land, Demands €200K

🔒 The AWO Karlsruhe-Land reported a cyberattack on 27 August that briefly caused a full outage of its central IT; affected systems were isolated and external IT specialists were engaged. An extortion letter demanding €200,000 allegedly came from the Lynx ransomware group, linked by local reporting to the Russian milieu. Central services were largely restored within a day, investigations with data protection authorities and the Landeskriminalamt continue, and the organisation says the compromised server held employees' employment contracts, prompting stepped-up security measures and staff briefings.

Silver Fox Abuses Signed WatchDog Driver to Disable AV

🚨 Check Point attributes a BYOVD campaign to the Silver Fox actor that leverages a Microsoft-signed WatchDog kernel driver (amsdk.sys v1.0.600) to neutralize endpoint defenses. The operation uses a dual-driver approach—an older Zemana-based driver on Windows 7 and the WatchDog driver on Windows 10/11—to terminate processes and escalate privileges. An all-in-one loader bundles anti-analysis checks, embedded drivers, AV-killer logic, and a ValleyRAT downloader to establish persistent remote access.

Zscaler Says Salesforce Data Exposed via Drift OAuth

🔒 Zscaler has disclosed that OAuth tokens tied to the third-party Salesloft Drift application were stolen, allowing an attacker to access its Salesforce instance. The company said exposed data included business contact details, job titles, phone numbers, regional information, product licensing and some plain-text support case content, but not attachments or images. Zscaler revoked the app's access, rotated API tokens, implemented additional safeguards and urged customers to remain vigilant for phishing and social-engineering attempts.

Malicious npm Package Mimics Nodemailer, Targets Wallets

🛡️ Researchers found a malicious npm package named nodejs-smtp that impersonated the nodemailer mailer to avoid detection and entice installs. On import the module uses Electron tooling to unpack an app.asar, replace a vendor bundle with a payload, repackage the application, and erase traces to inject a clipper into Windows desktop wallets. The backdoor redirects BTC, ETH, USDT, XRP and SOL transactions to attacker-controlled addresses while retaining legitimate mailer functionality as a cover.

How Bribery at a Vendor Led to Coinbase Extortion Incident

🔒 In early May 2025 Coinbase disclosed that attackers had extorted the company after bribing employees at an outsourced support provider in India to acquire customer and internal data. The theft affected roughly 1% of monthly active users — about 70,000 people — and exposed information useful for social engineering, though no private keys or wallet credentials were taken. Coinbase refused a $20 million ransom, posted a matching bounty, pledged customer reimbursement, flagged suspect blockchain addresses, dismissed implicated vendor staff, and ended the vendor relationship.

Salesloft token theft exposes wide-ranging integrations

🔐 The mass theft of authentication tokens from Salesloft’s Drift chatbot has exposed integrations across hundreds of customers, according to Google. Attackers stole valid tokens for services including Slack, Google Workspace, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure and OpenAI. GTIG said the campaign, tracked as UNC6395, siphoned large amounts of Salesforce data and searched the haul for credentials such as AWS keys, VPN logins and Snowflake access. Customers were urged to immediately invalidate and reauthenticate all Salesloft-connected tokens while Salesloft and incident responders investigate.

Zscaler Salesforce Breach Exposes Customer Support Data

⚠️ Zscaler says threat actors accessed its Salesforce instance after a compromise of Salesloft Drift, during which OAuth and refresh tokens were stolen and used to access customer records. Exposed information includes names, business email addresses, job titles, phone numbers, regional details, product licensing and commercial data, and content from certain support cases. Zscaler emphasizes the breach was limited to its Salesforce environment—not its products, services, or infrastructure—and reports no detected misuse so far. The company has revoked Drift integrations, rotated API tokens, tightened customer authentication for support, and is investigating.

Silver Fox Abuses Microsoft-Signed Drivers to Deploy RAT

⚠️ A newly discovered campaign attributed to the Silver Fox APT abuses trusted Microsoft-signed drivers to bypass security protections and install a remote access tool. Check Point Research found attackers used the WatchDog driver (amsdk.sys) and an older Zemana-based driver to terminate antivirus and EDR processes, enabling deployment of ValleyRAT. Researchers observed loaders with anti-analysis, persistence, embedded drivers and hardcoded lists of security processes, and warn that timestamp edits can preserve valid signatures while evading hash-based detection.

Amazon Disrupts APT29 Campaign Targeting Microsoft 365

🔒 Amazon disrupted an operation attributed to the Russian state-sponsored group APT29 that used watering-hole compromises to target Microsoft 365 accounts. The attackers injected obfuscated JavaScript into legitimate sites to redirect roughly 10% of visitors to fake Cloudflare verification pages and then into a malicious Microsoft device code authentication flow. Amazon isolated attacker EC2 instances and worked with Cloudflare and Microsoft to take down identified domains; the campaign did not affect Amazon's infrastructure.

Supply-Chain Attack on npm Nx Steals Developer Credentials

🔒 A sophisticated supply-chain attack targeted the widely used Nx build-system packages on the npm registry, exposing developer credentials and sensitive files. According to a report from Wiz, attackers published malicious Nx versions on August 26, 2025 that harvested GitHub and npm tokens, SSH keys, environment variables and cryptocurrency wallets. The campaign uniquely abused installed AI CLI tools (for example, Claude and Gemini) by passing dangerous permission flags to exfiltrate file-system contents and perform reconnaissance, then uploaded roughly 20,000 files to attacker-controlled public repositories. Organizations should remove affected package versions, rotate exposed credentials and inspect developer workstations and CI/CD pipelines for persistence.