🚨🚨🚨 Cybersecurity: Google victim of a hack by hackers claiming to be from the famous cybercriminal group ShinyHunters

Last June, the tech giant Google was the victim of a hack, with a group of cybercriminals seizing some of the company's customer data.

This is a cyberattack against a tech giant. Google revealed on August 5 that it had been hacked in June. A group of hackers managed to seize data from some of its customers. Although "the data recovered by the cybercriminals was limited to basic business information and mostly already publicly accessible," as the multinational stated on its official blog, it clearly shows that even the largest companies can fall victim to cybersecurity breaches. According to Google, the hackers claim to be from a well-known group named ShinyHunters, known for attacks against major brands like LVMH, Allianz Life, Pixlr, and Adidas.

Scams in the form of "vishing"

The attacks described by Google experts, and which the tech giant itself fell victim to, are carried out using a technique called "vishing" like "voice" and phishing. The hacker makes a phone call to an employee, during which they often impersonate a member of the company's IT support team. They guide their victim to download a fraudulent software that closely resembles one of the applications they use in their work. According to Google Threat Intelligence, it is often a copy of Salesforce's Data Loader, which is used to import information from Salesforce. Once the spyware is installed on the victim's computer, the hackers can quietly access the database and steal the company's customer information.