This phishing attack enabled the threat actor to access 'certain internal IT business applications.' The malicious actor gained unauthorized entry by compromising an employee's access to the organization's internal network for business administration.
Imagine this: Sarah from accounting gets what looks like a routine password reset email from your organization's cloud provider. She clicks the link, types in her credentials, and goes back to her spreadsheet. But unknown to her, she's just made a big mistake. Sarah just accidentally handed over her login details to cybercriminals who are laughing all the way to their dark web marketplace, where they'll sell her credentials for about $15. Not much as a one-off, but a serious money-making operation when scaled up.
Because of this breach, someone outside Cloudflare got access to our Salesforce instance, which we use for customer support and internal customer case management, and some of the data it contains,