Threat group 'systematically compromising Snowflake customer instances'

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Threat group 'systematically compromising Snowflake customer instances'
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Threat group 'systematically compromising Snowflake customer instances'

Details disclosed by Mandiant researchers on Monday suggest the attacks targeting Snowflake customers had a wider impact than previously suggested, with a “significant” volume of data stolen and more than 100 customers known to be potentially impacted so far.

A cybercriminal group is "suspected to have stolen a significant volume of records from Snowflake customer environments," researchers at Mandiant, a major incident response firm owned by Google Clo...

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