Cybersecurity Firms Impacted by Klue Supply Chain Attack
Klue platform integration with Salesforce compromised, impacting cybersecurity firms Huntress and Recorded Future.
Cybersecurity firms Huntress and Recorded Future have confirmed they were impacted by a supply chain attack on the Klue market intelligence platform. The attackers compromised Klue's backend, pushing a malicious code update to harvest OAuth tokens and exfiltrate customer data from Salesforce integrations. While the impact was limited to business and sales-related data, the incident highlights ongoing risks in software integrations.
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The lesson from this incident
Full lessonAttackers compromised Klue's backend infrastructure and injected malicious code into a platform update, enabling them to silently harvest OAuth tokens from connected customer environments. This granted unauthorized access to Salesforce integrations, resulting in the exfiltration of business and sales data from affected firms including Huntress and Recorded Future. The incident underscores a critical blind spot: organizations inherently trust their software vendors, often granting them broad integration permissions without adequate monitoring. Even security-mature organizations are not immune when the compromise originates upstream in the supply chain. This attack is a reminder that third-party integrations represent an expanded attack surface that must be actively managed and audited.
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Indicators of Compromise
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- malware — Mr Brean
- malware — Icarus