It was just a little chat window in the corner of the screen.

The kind you see on thousands of websites every day. But behind it was a web of trusted connections reaching deep inside the enterprise.

In August 2025, attackers tracked as UNC6395 compromised OAuth tokens associated with Salesloft’s Drift integration, turning trusted connections to customer Salesforce environments into an attack path reaching hundreds of companies, including some of the world’s most sophisticated technology and cybersecurity organizations.

Instead of breaching those companies one by one, the attackers compromised trust upstream and inherited access downstream.

Then they went looking for more.

Inside stolen Salesforce data, the attackers reportedly searched for passwords, API keys, cloud credentials, and other secrets that could potentially open the next system, cloud environment, or application.

The Drift breach exposed a much larger problem.

Modern enterprises depend on thousands of connections between SaaS platforms, APIs, cloud services, applications, and third parties. Every connection creates business value, but it also extends trust and expands the attack surface.

What happens when something you trust becomes the attacker’s way in?

In this episode of The CISO Signal | True Cybercrime Podcast, host Jeremy Ladner is joined by Volker Rath, Field CISO APAC at Cloudflare, the sponsor of this episode, to investigate the Drift breach and what it reveals about the changing enterprise attack surface.

Together they explore:

• How UNC6395 turned compromised OAuth tokens into an attack path reaching hundreds of companies
• Why compromising one trusted integration can create a massive downstream blast radius
• What the attackers were searching for inside stolen Salesforce data
• How security teams detect malicious behavior hiding behind legitimate access
• Why even sophisticated cybersecurity companies can inherit risk from trusted connections
• Whether traditional third-party risk programs adequately measure that risk
• Why revoking compromised tokens may only be the beginning of incident response
• How AI could help attackers learn, adapt, and operate at machine speed
• Which assumptions about trusted applications and authorized connections CISOs may need to rethink

Your attack surface no longer ends at the edge of your network.

It extends through everything you trust.

🎙 This episode is sponsored by Cloudflare.

Cloudflare helps organizations connect and protect their people, applications, infrastructure, and networks across an increasingly distributed digital environment.

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🎙 Guest Co-Host

Volker Rath
Field CISO APAC | Cloudflare

Volker works with security leaders and executives across the Asia-Pacific region on the changing realities of enterprise cybersecurity. In this episode, he joins Jeremy to examine what the Drift breach can teach CISOs about inherited trust, third-party risk, and protecting an enterprise increasingly connected to systems outside its direct control.

🔎 Episode Topics:

• Salesloft Drift breach
• UNC6395
• Salesforce security
• OAuth token compromise
• SaaS security
• Third-party risk
• Supply chain attacks
• API and cloud security
• Identity security
• Zero Trust
• Enterprise attack surface
• AI-powered cyberattacks
• Cloudflare
• CISO leadership

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👥 Join the Conversation:

If one of your organization’s trusted applications were compromised tomorrow, would your security team recognize when legitimate access had become malicious access?

Let us know what you think in the comments.

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On June 19, 2024, thousands of car dealerships across North America opened for what looked like an ordinary business day.
The vehicles were on the lot.
The sales teams were ready.
The service bays were full.
Then the software stopped working.
Within hours, more than 15,000 dealerships lost access to the systems that powered nearly every part of their business: vehicle sales, financing, inventory, repair orders, customer records, payroll, and parts management.
The target wasn't the dealerships.
It was the company almost nobody had heard of...
CDK Global.
What followed wasn't simply another ransomware attack.
It became a real-world demonstration of what happens when an entire industry becomes dependent on a single technology platform—and what happens when that platform suddenly disappears.

In this episode of The CISO Signal | True Cybercrime Podcast, host Jeremy Ladner is joined by Benjamin Lipczynski, Director of Cybersecurity & Regulatory Services at Origina, the sponsor of this episode, and Christopher Russell, Chief Information Security Officer at tZERO Group, to investigate one of the largest supply-chain ransomware incidents ever to impact North American commerce.

Together they explore:
• Who BlackSuit really is and how modern ransomware groups operate
• Why CDK became such an attractive target
• How a single software platform became a single point of failure for an entire industry
• Why attackers seek persistence long before they demand payment
• The difficult decisions defenders face when shutting down critical systems
• Why recovery is often far more difficult than the attack itself
• The cybersecurity lessons every CISO should take from the CDK incident

Because sometimes the biggest cyber attacks don't target thousands of companies...
They target the one company that thousands of businesses depend on.
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🎙 This episode is sponsored by Origina.

Modern enterprises often depend on mission-critical IBM, HCL, and VMware environments that simply can't afford unnecessary disruption. Origina helps organizations extend the life of these critical platforms through independent third-party software support and cybersecurity expertise, giving customers greater control over their infrastructure, reducing unnecessary vendor-driven upgrades, and helping IT and security leaders build resilient, long-term technology strategies.
🌐 https://www.origina.com
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🎙 Guest Co-Hosts
Benjamin Lipczynski
Director, Cybersecurity & Regulatory Services | Origina
Benjamin has more than 20 years of experience across defense, critical infrastructure, incident response, and cybersecurity strategy. At Origina, he works with enterprise security and IT leaders to reduce operational risk, strengthen resilience, and protect the mission-critical environments organizations depend on every day.

Christopher Russell
Chief Information Security Officer | tZERO Group
Chris has spent more than two decades leading cybersecurity, intelligence, cloud security, and security operations across both military and commercial environments.
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🔎 Episode Topics
• CDK Global ransomware attack
• BlackSuit ransomware
• Supply chain cyber attacks
• Third-party risk
• Single points of failure
• Incident response
• Business continuity
• Disaster recovery
• Enterprise resilience
• Critical infrastructure
• CISO leadership
• Cyber resilience
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🧩 About The CISO Signal
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👥 Join the Conversation
At what point does operational efficiency become operational dependency?
Can any organization justify relying on a single platform to run every critical business function?
Let us know what you think in the comments.
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