{"id":224021,"date":"2026-03-15T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/outsourcer-telus-admits-to-attack-possibly-by-shinyhunters-the-register\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T20:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T00:25:11","slug":"outsourcer-telus-admits-to-attack-possibly-by-shinyhunters-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/outsourcer-telus-admits-to-attack-possibly-by-shinyhunters-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Outsourcer Telus admits to attack, possibly by ShinyHunters \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/15\/telus_breach_starbucks_attack\/\">Outsourcer Telus admits to attack, possibly by ShinyHunters \u2022 The Register<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/15\/telus_breach_starbucks_attack\/\">https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/15\/telus_breach_starbucks_attack\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-15 19:24:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theregister.com\">www.theregister.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"label\">Infosec In Brief<\/span> Canadian outsourcer Telus Digital has admitted it fell victim to a cyberattack.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it is \u201cinvestigating a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to a limited number of our systems\u201d and \u201ctook immediate steps to address the unauthorized activity and secure our systems against further intrusion. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Telus is now \u201cactively managing the situation and continue[s] to monitor it closely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those soothing words contrast with reports that Telus has leaked a petabyte or more of data, and that crime gang ShinyHunters did the deed after acquiring valid Google Cloud Platform credentials as a result of the Salesloft breach.<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8211; Simon Sharwood\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"crosshead\">Citrix CISO urges patch blitz due to &#8216;evolving geopolitical landscape&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>Cloud Software Group (CSG), the conglomerate that includes Citrix and Tibco, on Sunday wrote to customers urging them to implement all patches ASAP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the evolving geopolitical landscape and the corresponding increase in state-sponsored and opportunistic cyber threats, I am writing to urge immediate attention to your security posture across all our products,\u201d wrote the company\u2019s CISO Kumar Palaniappan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThreat intelligence indicates a marked uptick in targeted attacks against critical infrastructure, supply chains, and enterprise environments linked to ongoing geopolitical conflicts. These include advanced persistent threats (APTs), ransomware campaigns, and zero-day exploitation attempts,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Palaniappan said CSG\u2019s security teams \u201care operating at an elevated alert level\u201d and have \u201caccelerated vulnerability assessments, threat monitoring, and patch release cycles across our entire product portfolio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CISO urged customers to apply all available patches and product updates immediately, check implementations follow instructions in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/15\/telus_breach_starbucks_attack\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outsourcer Telus admits to attack, possibly by ShinyHunters \u2022 The Register https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/15\/telus_breach_starbucks_attack\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-15&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2016\/07\/19\/data_breach_shutterstock.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[30,24,27],"class_list":["post-224021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-breach","tag-cybersecurity","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224023,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224021\/revisions\/224023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}