Cybercrime Groups ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider Unite for Targeted Extortion Campaign Against Businesses
August 12, 2025
Cybercrime / Financial Security
A continuing data extortion initiative targeting Salesforce clients may soon expand its focus to encompass financial services and tech providers, as recent findings suggest collaboration between ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider. “This latest series of attacks attributed to ShinyHunters indicates a significant tactical shift, moving past their prior methods of credential theft and database exploitation,” reports ReliaQuest to The Hacker News. Their new approach incorporates strategies akin to those used by Scattered Spider, including highly-targeted vishing (voice phishing) and social engineering tactics, the use of applications that pose as legitimate tools, and Okta-themed phishing pages to deceive victims into revealing credentials during vishing attempts, alongside VPN obfuscation for data exfiltration. ShinyHunters, which first emerged in 2020, is a financially motivated group that has executed numerous data breaches targeting major corporations.