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Stealthy ‘City-Forum’ Attacks Target Salesforce and ServiceNow With Custom Toolset

Reco is tracking a sophisticated and innovative campaign targeting both Salesforce and ServiceNow via what appears to be a custom made multi-platform toolset. Researchers believe the primary targets include telecoms, banks and financial-services firms, enterprise-software vendors (including security and data-privacy companies), and public-sector portals. The campaign has been named ‘City-Forum’. It is directed at both Salesforce Aura and the newer LWR implementations, where it is the first observed in‑the‑wild exploitation of Salesforce’s UI‑API guest surface. Furthermore, attacks on Aura (necessarily included in a Salesforce campaign since Aura users still outnumber LWR users) are integrated with the LWR attacks in a single toolset. “One Go binary hit Salesforce over both Aura and LWR and hit ServiceNow, from the same box,” comment the researchers in a blog report. This is consistent with a custom toolset rather than anything off the shelf like AuraInspector.

Full report : Researchers observed the novel campaign exploiting unauthenticated guest access to quietly enumerate and exfiltrate exposed data from both platforms.