Records held in Salesforce and ServiceNow systems are under attack leaving user data exposed, according to researchers at Reco.
The attack appears similar to those perpetrated by the extortion group ShinyHunters, Reco said. ShinyHunters has been particularly active this year, attacking dating sites in January and Oracle in June, and there are fears that they could have found a new target.
Reco has named the latest campaign of attacks “City-Forum,” after a domain name associated with the attackers’ IP address. While it bears similarities to Shiny Hunters’ past exploits, there are also differences. This time around the attacker penetrated the systems through the UI-API layer, an attack point t...