šØ Hackers Just Threatened Google⦠And Itās Not for Money.
They want two cybersecurity experts fired. Hereās the full story you need to know ā¬ļø
A cyber gang calling themselves āScattered LapSus Huntersā has demanded that Google terminate two named security professionals:
š¹ Austin Larsen from Google Threat Intelligence
š¹ Charles Carmakal, CTO of Mandiant (a Google Cloud company)
Why? Because theyāre part of the team investigating the attackers behind a recent Salesforce data breach⦠which exposed business contact data and is now fuelling phishing and vishing attacks on users.
ā ļø No ransomware demand. No Bitcoin wallet.
Instead, theyāve issued a public ultimatum:
Fire your staff, or we leak your internal data.
Google responded by saying their internal systems are secure.
But theyāve acknowledged that 37% of account hijack attempts now come from phishing and voice phishing linked to this breach.
This isnāt just a weird hacker headline. Itās a clear signal:
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