Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, Jan. 17, 2025: This story, originally published Jan.

Hackers called ShinyHunters broke into a major Google database in June by tricking a Google employee into giving login details. The database was managed through Salesforce’s cloud platform, which ...

The threat associated with nation-state-backed hacking groups has been well-researched and chronicled in recent times, but there's another, equally dangerous set of adversaries that's operated ...