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…