Cybercriminals Leveraging Call Center Social Engineering Target Salesforce Data to Extort Retail and Hospitality Organizations

Summary The cybercriminal group known UNC6040 is conducting sophisticated attacks by socially engineering employees into installing maliciously modified versions of Salesforce’s Data Loader tool, facilitating extensive data theft, according to new intelligence from Google Cloud. Exploiting phone-based social engineering (“vishing”), these attackers pose as IT support to trick victims into granting unauthorized Salesforce app access,…

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DragonForce Actors Target SimpleHelp Vulnerabilities To Attack MSP, Customers

Summary Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) recently intervened in a targeted cyberattack against an unnamed Managed Service Provider (MSP), where threat actors leveraged vulnerabilities in the SimpleHelp remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform to deploy DragonForce ransomware across multiple endpoints. Attackers exploited vulnerabilities CVE-2024-57727, CVE-2024-57728, and CVE-2024-57726, initially disclosed in January 2025, to achieve remote execution, arbitrary file…

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China-Nexus Threat Actor Actively Exploiting Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile Vulnerability

Context EclecticIQ has identified active exploitation of two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-4427 and CVE-2025-4428) in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) version 12.5.0.0 and earlier, allowing for unauthenticated remote code execution. This activity, attributed with high confidence to the China-nexus espionage group UNC5221, began on May 15, 2025, and targets critical sectors globally, including healthcare, telecommunications, and government. The threat actors…

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A Cyber Threat Travelogue: Trustwave SpiderLabs Highlights Hospitality Sector Cybersecurity Challenges in 2025

As the summer travel season approaches, travelers worldwide are busy booking their holidays, entrusting the hospitality industry with some of their most sensitive personal and financial information. Unfortunately, this makes the sector a prime target for threat actors looking to exploit and steal this data. In the 2025 Trustwave Risk Radar Report: Hospitality Sector report,…

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M&S Hackers Allegedly Utilize Employee Logins from Third-Party Consulting Firm

Context Public reporting has emerged that claims ransomware group Scattered Spider gained initial access to Marks & Spencer’s (M&S) systems by compromising the login credentials of two employees from their third-party partner, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). Cyber News reports that a source reportedly told news agencies “that at least two Tata Consultancy Services employees’ M&S logins were used…

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