Senator Flags Microsoft’s Role in the Ascension Ransomware Hack
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) wants the U.S. government to hold Microsoft responsible “for contributing to ransomware attacks against critical U.S. infrastructure” like Ascension.
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Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) wants the U.S. government to hold Microsoft responsible “for contributing to ransomware attacks against critical U.S. infrastructure” like Ascension.
The affected packages include Chalk and Debug, and one of the contributors to those packages said the compromise was the result of him clicking on a phishing email related to setting up 2FA on his account.
Dennis and Lindsey talk through the continuing fallout of the Salesloft Drift incident (2:05) in light of the disclosure of several new companies that are involved, including Cloudflare, which published an excellent post-mortem on the intrusion. Then they discuss the new Shared Vision of SBOM for Cybersecurity published by CISA, NSA, and many foreign government […]
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This incident is the latest to stem from an intrusion at Salesloft in which attackers used OAuth tokens to target Salesloft customers’ Salesforce integrations.
Google researchers discovered the new attacks and are advising all customers to treat any authentication tokens for those integrations as compromised.