Cybercriminals claim breach of Oracle PeopleSoft servers at 100-plus organizations

Cybercriminals claim breach of Oracle PeopleSoft servers at 100-plus organizations

The notorious cybercrime group ShinyHunters claimed to have hacked Oracle PeopleSoft servers at more than 100 organizations, many of them universities, a ShinyHunters member told TechCrunch on Wednesday. The breaches were first reported by BleepingComputer. PeopleSoft is enterprise software designed to manage payroll, human resources, administration, and other business operations.  The news shows that despite…

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Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation

Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation

After a security researcher published a series of unpatched bugs in Microsoft products, along with code to exploit them, the company is now threatening to take legal action and call the cops on them. Microsoft’s veiled threat reignites a long-running argument over what responsibility, if any, security researchers have to disclose vulnerabilities affecting large and…

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CrowdStrike and Google take down botnet used by hackers to target software developers in supply chain attacks

CrowdStrike and Google take down botnet used by hackers to target software developers in supply chain attacks

CrowdStrike, working with Google and Shadowserver, a nonprofit organization that scans and monitors the internet for cyberattacks, took down a botnet that cybercriminals used to push malware and steal passwords from open-source software developers. The takedown operation had the goal of disrupting the activities of the cybercriminals behind the so-called Glassworm botnet, who have been…

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Ransomware hackers claim breach at Foxconn, a major electronics manufacturer for Apple, Google, and Nvidia

Ransomware hackers claim breach at Foxconn, a major electronics manufacturer for Apple, Google, and Nvidia

Electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn, which makes devices and components for Apple, Google, Nvidia, and Sony, among other tech giants, confirmed on Monday that it was hit by a cyberattack that may have affected some of its factories. In a statement sent to media outlets, Foxconn said that the cyberattack affected facilities in North America, and…

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