bleeping-computer Aug 12, 2026 · Crawled Aug 13, 2026

"City-Forum" data-theft attacks target Salesforce, ServiceNow portals

2 IoCs 1 Actors

AI Summary

The City-Forum data theft campaign targets misconfigured Salesforce Experience Cloud and ServiceNow portals by exploiting overly permissive guest user access. Attackers use a single server at IP 158.220.87.79 to enumerate and steal data exposed to unauthenticated users via custom techniques on both legacy Aura and newer Lightning Web Runtime (LWR) frameworks in Salesforce, as well as the ServiceNow Service Portal search API. The campaign has been active since at least March 2025, with increasing activity across multiple sectors including finance, telecom, and public-sector organizations. No vulnerability is exploited; instead, the theft relies on misconfigurations that allow public access to sensitive records.

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Extracted Entities 1 found

Threat Actor ShinyHunters →

Indicators of Compromise 2 extracted

Type	Value	Detail
IP	158[.]220[.]87[.]79	Details →
Domain	city-forum[.]com	Details →

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs 65 techniques

T1003 OS Credential Dumping · Credential Access T1003.002 Security Account Manager · Credential Access T1020 Automated Exfiltration · Exfiltration T1021 Remote Services · Lateral Movement T1021.001 Remote Desktop Protocol · Lateral Movement T1021.002 SMB/Windows Admin Shares · Lateral Movement T1021.003 Distributed Component Object Model · Lateral Movement T1021.004 SSH · Lateral Movement T1046 Network Service Discovery · Discovery T1055 Process Injection · Defense Evasion T1056.001 Keylogging · Collection T1056.002 GUI Input Capture · Collection T1059.001 PowerShell · Execution T1059.003 Windows Command Shell · Execution T1071.001 Web Protocols · Command And Control T1071.004 DNS · Command And Control T1078 Valid Accounts · Defense Evasion T1078.002 Domain Accounts · Defense Evasion T1078.004 Cloud Accounts · Defense Evasion T1082 System Information Discovery · Discovery T1083 File and Directory Discovery · Discovery T1085 T1085 T1090 Proxy · Command And Control T1098 Account Manipulation · Persistence T1102 Web Service · Command And Control T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer · Command And Control T1110 Brute Force · Credential Access T1113 Screen Capture · Collection T1114 Email Collection · Collection T1120 Peripheral Device Discovery · Discovery T1132 Data Encoding · Command And Control T1133 External Remote Services · Persistence T1135 Network Share Discovery · Discovery T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application · Initial Access T1192 T1192 T1195.002 Compromise Software Supply Chain · Initial Access T1202 Indirect Command Execution · Defense Evasion T1204.002 Malicious File · Execution T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services · Lateral Movement T1212 Exploitation for Credential Access · Credential Access T1213 Data from Information Repositories · Collection T1400 T1400 T1484.001 Group Policy Modification · Defense Evasion T1485 Data Destruction · Impact T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact · Impact T1490 Inhibit System Recovery · Impact T1491 Defacement · Impact T1496 Resource Hijacking · Impact T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service · Impact T1530 Data from Cloud Storage · Collection T1531 Account Access Removal · Impact T1542 Pre-OS Boot · Defense Evasion T1543.003 Windows Service · Persistence T1557 Adversary-in-the-Middle · Credential Access T1558 Steal or Forge Kerberos Tickets · Credential Access T1558.003 Kerberoasting · Credential Access T1566 Phishing · Initial Access T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment · Initial Access T1566.002 Spearphishing Link · Initial Access T1567 Exfiltration Over Web Service · Exfiltration T1573 Encrypted Channel · Command And Control T1588.001 Malware · Resource Development T1595 Active Scanning · Reconnaissance T1611 Escape to Host · Privilege Escalation T1659 Content Injection · Initial Access