State of Cybercrime

ShinyHunters' CRM Heist

State of Cybercrime

Show Notes

One phone call was all it took for ShinyHunters to breach some of the world's biggest brands.

By exploiting Salesforce to infiltrate Google, Cisco, and many others, this group has shown just how vulnerable organizations can be when well-known SaaS platforms become the attack vector.

In this special State of Cybercrime episode, Matt and David break down how ShinyHunters pulled off one of the largest CRM–focused attacks of the year without exploiting a single software vulnerability.

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