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Inside the Salesloft Drift Supply Chain Breach: How OAuth Token Theft Exposed SaaS Leaders
In August 2023, the threat group UNC6395 exploited a vulnerability in Salesloft’s Drift SaaS marketing platform, targeting OAuth and refresh tokens stored within its Salesforce integration. By leveraging these stolen tokens, attackers performed lateral movement into several customer Salesforce environments, extracting business contact records, support case data, and in some instances, sensitive configuration details and access credentials from high-profile clients such as Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks, Cloudflare, Proofpoint, and Tenable. Salesloft and Salesforce responded by revoking tokens and disabling integrations, while impacted organizations rushed to assess and mitigate the damage. This incident underscores the persistent risk of supply chain compromises targeting SaaS integrations and identity-based authentication mechanisms. As attackers increasingly leverage token theft for stealthy, authorized access, organizations must adopt granular permissions, token security best practices, and rapid credential rotation to safeguard against similar threats.
8 months ago
Kill Chain
GhostRedirector: Chinese SEO Poisoning Attack Hits Global IIS Web Servers (2024)
In August 2024, a cybercrime group tracked as "GhostRedirector" conducted a widespread SEO poisoning campaign targeting Windows web servers across Brazil, Vietnam, Thailand, and several other regions. The attackers exploited unpatched SQL injection vulnerabilities to gain initial access and deployed custom malware, including Rungan (a C++ backdoor) and Gamshen (a malicious IIS server extension), to maintain persistence and manipulate web content. The campaign's main tactic was to covertly inject links into compromised legitimate websites, boosting the search engine rankings of gambling sites favored by the threat actors. Affected sites span diverse sectors without clear industry targeting, complicating defense strategies. The incident illustrates the persistent risk posed by native IIS module malware and the ongoing evolution of China-based threat actors using advanced web server exploitation and SEO manipulation tactics. Its relevance is heightened by increased attacker interest in manipulating search engine results to drive illicit business revenue and evade detection by blending with legitimate site infrastructure.
8 months ago
Kill Chain
GhostPoster: Malicious Firefox Add-ons Drive 2025 Supply-Chain Breach
In late 2025, security researchers at Koi Security uncovered a widespread supply-chain malware campaign named "GhostPoster." This campaign weaponized 17 Mozilla Firefox browser add-ons, leveraging benign logo files to conceal malicious JavaScript that hijacked affiliate links, injected tracking codes, and orchestrated click and ad fraud operations. The compromised extensions had garnered over 50,000 downloads before Mozilla intervened to remove them from its add-on repository, but users were already exposed to extensive privacy intrusions and potential data exfiltration. The GhostPoster incident underscores a growing trend of exploiting trusted browser extension ecosystems for mass infection and financial fraud. With attackers increasingly targeting supply-chain vectors and browser add-ons, organizations and individuals must reevaluate extension vetting processes amid surging regulatory scrutiny and evolving adversary techniques.
9 months ago
Kill Chain
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