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Wall Street Journal
2 days ago
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
Amazon to Invest Over $5 Billion in Data Centers in Taiwan
Amazon AMZN 0.33%increase; green up pointing triangle plans to invest over $5 billion in a cluster of data centers in Taiwan. The investment will support the launch of a new cloud services region on the island. The region will give developers, startups and enterprises more options to run applications and serve end-users from AWS data centers in Taiwan, the company said Thursday.
CNN
4 days ago
- Business
- CNN
Hackers are using a modified Salesforce app to trick employees and extort companies, Google says
Hackers are tricking employees at companies in Europe and the Americas into installing a modified version of a Salesforce-related app, allowing the hackers to steal reams of data, gain access to other corporate cloud services and extort those companies, Google said on Wednesday. The hackers – tracked by the Google Threat Intelligence Group as UNC6040 – have 'proven particularly effective at tricking employees' into installing a modified version of Salesforce's Data Loader, a proprietary tool used to bulk import data into Salesforce environments, the researchers said. The hackers use voice calls to trick employees into visiting a purported Salesforce connected app setup page to approve the unauthorized, modified version of the app, created by the hackers to emulate Data Loader. If the employee installs the app, the hackers gain 'significant capabilities to access, query, and exfiltrate sensitive information directly from the compromised Salesforce customer environments,' the researchers said. The access also frequently gives the hackers the ability to move throughout a customer's network, enabling attacks on other cloud services and internal corporate networks. Technical infrastructure tied to the campaign shares characteristics with suspected ties to the broader and loosely organized ecosystem known as 'The Com,' known for small, disparate groups engaging in cybercriminal and sometimes violent activity, the researchers said. A Google spokesperson told Reuters that roughly 20 organizations have been affected by the UNC6040 campaign, which has been observed over the past several months. A subset of those organizations had data successfully exfiltrated, the spokesperson said. A Salesforce spokesperson told Reuters in an email that 'there's no indication the issue described stems from any vulnerability inherent in our platform.' The spokesperson said the voice calls used to trick employees 'are targeted social engineering scams designed to exploit gaps in individual users' cybersecurity awareness and best practices.' The spokesperson declined to share the specific number of affected customers, but said that Salesforce was 'aware of only a small subset of affected customers,' and said it was 'not a widespread issue.' Salesforce warned customers of voice phishing, or 'vishing,' attacks and of hackers abusing malicious, modified versions of Data Loader in a March 2025 blog post.
CNN
4 days ago
- Business
- CNN
Hackers are using a modified Salesforce app to trick employees and extort companies, Google says
Hackers are tricking employees at companies in Europe and the Americas into installing a modified version of a Salesforce-related app, allowing the hackers to steal reams of data, gain access to other corporate cloud services and extort those companies, Google said on Wednesday. The hackers – tracked by the Google Threat Intelligence Group as UNC6040 – have 'proven particularly effective at tricking employees' into installing a modified version of Salesforce's Data Loader, a proprietary tool used to bulk import data into Salesforce environments, the researchers said. The hackers use voice calls to trick employees into visiting a purported Salesforce connected app setup page to approve the unauthorized, modified version of the app, created by the hackers to emulate Data Loader. If the employee installs the app, the hackers gain 'significant capabilities to access, query, and exfiltrate sensitive information directly from the compromised Salesforce customer environments,' the researchers said. The access also frequently gives the hackers the ability to move throughout a customer's network, enabling attacks on other cloud services and internal corporate networks. Technical infrastructure tied to the campaign shares characteristics with suspected ties to the broader and loosely organized ecosystem known as 'The Com,' known for small, disparate groups engaging in cybercriminal and sometimes violent activity, the researchers said. A Google spokesperson told Reuters that roughly 20 organizations have been affected by the UNC6040 campaign, which has been observed over the past several months. A subset of those organizations had data successfully exfiltrated, the spokesperson said. A Salesforce spokesperson told Reuters in an email that 'there's no indication the issue described stems from any vulnerability inherent in our platform.' The spokesperson said the voice calls used to trick employees 'are targeted social engineering scams designed to exploit gaps in individual users' cybersecurity awareness and best practices.' The spokesperson declined to share the specific number of affected customers, but said that Salesforce was 'aware of only a small subset of affected customers,' and said it was 'not a widespread issue.' Salesforce warned customers of voice phishing, or 'vishing,' attacks and of hackers abusing malicious, modified versions of Data Loader in a March 2025 blog post.
CNA
4 days ago
- Business
- CNA
Hackers abuse modified Salesforce app to steal data, extort companies, Google says
Hackers are tricking employees at companies in Europe and the Americas into installing a modified version of a Salesforce-related app, allowing the hackers to steal reams of data, gain access to other corporate cloud services and extort those companies, Google said on Wednesday. The hackers – tracked by the Google Threat Intelligence Group as UNC6040 – have 'proven particularly effective at tricking employees' into installing a modified version of Salesforce's Data Loader, a proprietary tool used to bulk import data into Salesforce environments, the researchers said. The hackers use voice calls to trick employees into visiting a purported Salesforce connected app setup page to approve the unauthorized, modified version of the app, created by the hackers to emulate Data Loader. If the employee installs the app, the hackers gain 'significant capabilities to access, query, and exfiltrate sensitive information directly from the compromised Salesforce customer environments,' the researchers said. The access also frequently gives the hackers the ability to move throughout a customer's network, enabling attacks on other cloud services and internal corporate networks. Technical infrastructure tied to the campaign shares characteristics with suspected ties to the broader and loosely organized ecosystem known as 'The Com,' known for small, disparate groups engaging in cybercriminal and sometimes violent activity, the researchers said. A Google spokesperson did not share additional details about how many companies have been targeted as part of the campaign, which has been observed over the past several months. A Salesforce spokesperson told Reuters in an email that 'there's no indication the issue described stems from any vulnerability inherent in our platform.' The spokesperson said the voice calls used to trick employees 'are targeted social engineering scams designed to exploit gaps in individual users' cybersecurity awareness and best practices.' The spokesperson declined to share the specific number of affected customers, but said that Salesforce was "aware of only a small subset of affected customers," and said it was "not a widespread issue."
Yahoo
7 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Jim Cramer and Wall Street Are Watching Applied Digital Corporation (APLD)
We recently published a list of . In this article, we are going to take a look at where Applied Digital Corporation (NASDAQ:APLD) stands against other stocks on Jim Cramer and Wall Street's radar. During the May 2 episode, a caller asked Cramer about Applied Digital Corporation (NASDAQ:APLD), and he replied: 'I know the company, and it's the kind of thing, we have so many of these digital infrastructure plays. I actually just prefer if you're going to go there, just go buy Salesforce. I'm not kidding. Go buy CRM, I would feel better that way.' An overhead view of a large-scale data center with rows of servers and blinking lights. Applied Digital Corporation (NASDAQ:APLD) provides digital infrastructure and cloud services tailored for high-performance computing and AI workloads, including data center operations and GPU-based solutions for tasks like machine learning and crypto mining. On May 22, Citizens JMP analyst Greg Miller started coverage on Applied Digital (NASDAQ:APLD) with an Outperform rating and a $12 price target. He believes companies set up for bitcoin mining have a strong position to offer extra space and power for data centers. The firm noted that despite the higher risk and controversy, fully utilizing capacity in the high-performance computing business could, in theory, eventually push the stock to $30. READ NEXT: 20 Best AI Stocks To Buy Now and 30 Best Stocks to Buy Now According to Billionaires. Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at Insider Monkey.
