ShinyHunters Target Universities in Oracle PeopleSoft Zero-Day Attack
A massive wave of cyberattacks has hit more than 100 organisations globally, and universities are the main targets. Security researchers at Mandiant and the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) were notified about the threat through public reports. Further probing revealed that 68% of the victims were colleges and universities. And, most of these are based in the US.
The cybercrime group behind this wave is UNC6240 or ShinyHunters. The group’s targets were organisations using the Oracle PeopleSoft software. For your information, this software handles institutional business operations.
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Reportedly, the activity occurred between 27 May and 9 June, and involved the exploitation of a critical zero-day flaw (tracked as CVE-2026-35273 CVSS 9.8) to compromise university networks. Since the group caught this flaw before Oracle released a patch, they proceeded completely unhindered.
One of the group’s latest victims in the PeopleSoft-linked...
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