Tag: mandiant
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ShinyHunters Hits Universities Via Oracle Zero-Day
Mandiant: 68% of Targets Were Higher Ed Institutions Running PeopleSoft. ShinyHunters exploited a critical zero-day in Oracle PeopleSoft to breach more than 100 organizations globally, researchers at Mandiant and Google’s Threat Intelligence Group said, with universities and colleges accounting for the majority of confirmed targets in the active extortion campaign. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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Mandiant bestätigt CVE-2026-35273 und aktive Angriffe – ShinyHunters missbrauchen Zero-Day-Lücke in Oracle PeopleSoft
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/shinyhunters-oracle-peoplesoft-zero-day-cve-2026-35273-a-8b23ff9753f50c14facb5845c4b23ee4/
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Oracle PeopleSoft RCE Flaw Used as Zero-Day in Ongoing ShinyHunters Campaign
Tags: advisory, breach, exploit, flaw, google, group, intelligence, mandiant, oracle, rce, remote-code-execution, threat, update, vulnerability, zero-dayShinyHunters exploited a critical Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day to breach over 100 organizations, mostly universities, before a patch was available. Mandiant and Google’s Threat Intelligence Group published an analysis of an active ShinyHunters campaign on June 11, one day after Oracle finally issued an advisory for the vulnerability being exploited. The gap matters: the activity ran…
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Oracle PeopleSoft RCE Flaw Used as Zero-Day in Ongoing ShinyHunters Campaign
Tags: advisory, breach, exploit, flaw, google, group, intelligence, mandiant, oracle, rce, remote-code-execution, threat, update, vulnerability, zero-dayShinyHunters exploited a critical Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day to breach over 100 organizations, mostly universities, before a patch was available. Mandiant and Google’s Threat Intelligence Group published an analysis of an active ShinyHunters campaign on June 11, one day after Oracle finally issued an advisory for the vulnerability being exploited. The gap matters: the activity ran…
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Oracle PeopleSoft Zero-Day RCE Vulnerability Exploited by ShinyHunters
Tags: cve, cvss, cyber, exploit, flaw, google, group, intelligence, mandiant, oracle, rce, remote-code-execution, threat, vulnerability, zero-dayA newly disclosed zero-day vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft is being actively exploited by the ShinyHunters threat group, according to a joint investigation by Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG). Tracked as CVE-2026-35273 with a critical CVSS score of 9.8, the flaw affects the Environment Management component and enables unauthenticated remote code execution. Researchers confirmed…
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ShinyHunters Exploits Oracle PeopleSoft Zero-Day (CVE-2026-35273) to Breach Universities
The ShinyHunters extortion crew exploited an unpatched flaw in Oracle PeopleSoft to break into enterprise systems, steal data, and demand payment to keep it private. The campaign hit universities hardest.Google’s Mandiant attributes it to the group it tracks as UNC6240, and dates the activity between May 27 and June 9. Oracle did not publish its…
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Oracle PeopleSoft servers under attack, Oracle pushes outband security alert
A zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-35273) in Oracle PeopleSoft PeopleTools is being exploited in the wild, Charles Carmakal, CTO at cybersecurity firm Mandiant, part of Google … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/11/oracle-peoplesoft-under-attack-cve-2026-35273/
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UNC3753 Escalates: From Vishing Calls to Physical Office Intrusions at US Legal and Financial Firms
UNC3753 phones staff posing as IT, hijacks screen sessions, steals sensitive legal files, and now sends operatives physically into offices to plug in USB drives. Google Mandiant and the Google Threat Intelligence Group published a detailed report documenting an active extortion campaign carried out by the cybercrime group UNC3753 (aka Luna Moth, Chatty Spider, and…
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UNC3753 Used Vishing and Physical Intrusions in U.S. Data Theft Extortion Campaign
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a financially motivated data theft extortion campaign that has targeted dozens of organizations across professional, legal, and financial services in the U.S. between January and May 2026.The activity has been attributed by Google Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) to a threat actor dubbed UNC3753, which is also…
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UNC3753 Targets US Law Firms with Vishing, RMM Tools, and Physical Break-Ins
Threat cluster UNC3753, widely tracked as Silent Ransom Group or Luna Moth, is actively targeting professional, legal, and financial services in the United States. According to Mandiant’s Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), this financially motivated campaign leverages a highly effective combination of voice phishing, remote monitoring and management abuse, and unprecedented physical office intrusions. Attackers…
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Hackers Abuse KnowledgeDeliver LMS Flaw to Install BLUEBEAM Web Shell
Tags: cve, cyber, exploit, flaw, google, hacker, intelligence, mandiant, remote-code-execution, threat, vulnerabilityHackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the KnowledgeDeliver Learning Management System (LMS) to deploy the BLUEBEAM web shell, according to findings from Mandiant’s Google Threat Intelligence Group. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-5426, enables unauthenticated remote code execution through ASP.NET ViewState deserialization and has been observed in real-world attacks. KnowledgeDeliver LMS Flaw The vulnerability…
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AI Rush is Reviving Old Cybersecurity Mistakes, Mandiant VP Warns
AI tools are not just creating new vulnerabilities, they are reviving old security failures, warned Jurgen Kutscher, VP of Mandiant Consulting First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ai-old-cybersecurity-mistakes/
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Your MTTD Looks Great. Your Post-Alert Gap Doesn’t
Anthropic restricted its Mythos Preview model last week after it autonomously found and exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and browser. Palo Alto Networks’ Wendi Whitmorewarned that similar capabilities are weeks or months from proliferation. CrowdStrike’s 2026 Global Threat Report puts average eCrime breakout time at 29 minutes. Mandiant’s M-Trends 2026 First seen…
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Mallory Launches AI-Native Threat Intelligence Platform, Turning Global Threat Data Into Prioritized Action
9th, 2026, CyberNewswire Built by a veteran security team and led by a former Google and Mandiant executive, Mallory delivers intelligence that drives action for enterprise security teams. Mallory is launching a AI-native threat intelligence platform, purpose-built to answer the questions CISOs and their teams are asking every day: The platform monitors thousands of threat…
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Mandiant veröffentlicht M-Trends Report 2026: Mittels KI konnten Angreifer Operationen ausweiten
First seen on datensicherheit.de Jump to article: www.datensicherheit.de/mandiant-veroeffentlichung-m-trends-report-2026-ki-angreifer-operationen-ausweitung
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Trivy supply chain breach compromises over 1,000 SaaS environments, Lapsus$ joins the extortion wave
Tags: access, breach, business, ceo, control, credentials, extortion, github, incident response, Internet, malicious, mandiant, open-source, saas, software, supply-chain, theft, updateA pattern of persistent access: This is the second compromise affecting the Trivy ecosystem within roughly a month. Socket identified compromised Aqua Trivy VS Code extension releases on OpenVSX in late February, and now trivy-action, Trivy’s official GitHub Action for running scans in CI/CD workflows, has been abused through manipulated version tags to distribute malicious…
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Experts warn of a ‘loud and aggressive’ extortion wave following Trivy hack
Attackers compromised the open-source security tool and published malicious versions of the software. Mandiant warns the fallout could impact up to 10,000 downstream victims. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/trivy-supply-chain-attack-aqua-downstream-extortion-fallout/
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Attackers are handing off access in 22 seconds, Mandiant finds
Exploits remain the leading entry point for attackers for the sixth consecutive year, according to Mandiant’s M-Trends 2026 report, which draws on more than 500,000 … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/03/24/mandiant-m-trends-2026-report/
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High-Tech Sector Overtakes Finance as Top Target for Cyber-Attacks, Mandiant Reports
High tech was the most frequently targeted industry in Mandiant investigations in 2025, overtaking financial services which led in 2023 and 2024 First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/high-tech-top-target-cyberattacks/
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The phone call is the new phishing email
Voice-based phishing was at the root of multiple attack sprees Mandiant responded to last year, reflecting a concerning shift in tactics. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/social-engineering-surge-intrusion-vector-mandiant-m-trends/
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Anton’s Security Blog Quarterly Q1 2026
Tags: ai, automation, breach, ciso, cloud, control, defense, detection, framework, google, governance, infrastructure, mandiant, metric, RedTeam, risk, service, siem, soc, software, supply-chain, threat, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementMy Anton’s Security Blog (And Podcast!) Quarterly this covers both Anton on Security and my posts from Google Cloud blog, Google Cloud community blog, and our Cloud Security Podcast (subscribe on Spotify, now with VIDEO). Gemini image for this Top 10 posts with the most lifetime views (excluding paper announcement blogs): Anton’s Alert Fatigue: The Study [A.C.”Š”,…
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Anton’s Security Blog Quarterly Q1 2026
Tags: ai, automation, breach, ciso, cloud, control, defense, detection, framework, google, governance, infrastructure, mandiant, metric, RedTeam, risk, service, siem, soc, software, supply-chain, threat, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementMy Anton’s Security Blog (And Podcast!) Quarterly this covers both Anton on Security and my posts from Google Cloud blog, Google Cloud community blog, and our Cloud Security Podcast (subscribe on Spotify, now with VIDEO). Gemini image for this Top 10 posts with the most lifetime views (excluding paper announcement blogs): Anton’s Alert Fatigue: The Study [A.C.”Š”,…
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Anton’s Security Blog Quarterly Q1 2026
Tags: ai, automation, breach, ciso, cloud, control, defense, detection, framework, google, governance, infrastructure, mandiant, metric, RedTeam, risk, service, siem, soc, software, supply-chain, threat, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementMy Anton’s Security Blog (And Podcast!) Quarterly this covers both Anton on Security and my posts from Google Cloud blog, Google Cloud community blog, and our Cloud Security Podcast (subscribe on Spotify, now with VIDEO). Gemini image for this Top 10 posts with the most lifetime views (excluding paper announcement blogs): Anton’s Alert Fatigue: The Study [A.C.”Š”,…
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Google Warns of AI”‘Driven Adaptive Malware Rewriting Its Own Code
The cybersecurity landscape experienced a major shift in 2025 as threat actors transitioned from experimenting with artificial intelligence to fully integrating it into real-world cyber operations. According to new insights from the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) and Mandiant, attackers are now deploying adaptive malware and autonomous AI agents that dynamically modify their behavior during…
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Mandiant’s founder just raised $190M for his autonomous AI agent security startup
Mandia, who sold his previous company Mandiant to Google for $5.4 billion in 2022, has launched an agentic security startup. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/mandiants-founder-just-raised-190m-for-his-autonomous-ai-agent-security-startup/
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ShinyHunters claims more high-profile victims in latest Salesforce customers data heist
And they abused a Mandiant-developed open source tool in the attacks First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/03/09/shinyhunters_claims_more_highprofile_victims/
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New Menlo Security CEO Eyes Agentic AI Runtime Protection
Former Mandiant Executive Bill Robbins Targets Browser-Based AI Security Growth. New CEO Bill Robbins said Menlo Security will boost growth by focusing on securing agentic AI runtimes through the browser, leveraging its visibility into web sessions to prevent prompt injection, malware and data loss. He also plans to sustain 40% plus revenue growth and drive…
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China-linked hackers used Google Sheets to spy on telecoms and governments across 42 countries
Tags: access, api, apt, china, cloud, communications, cyber, cyberespionage, data, defense, endpoint, espionage, google, government, group, hacker, infrastructure, intelligence, linux, mandiant, monitoring, network, phone, radius, service, spy, theft, threat, vpnHow Mandiant found it: The campaign came to light during a Mandiant Threat Defense investigation, when analysts flagged unusual activity on a CentOS server. A binary named xapt, designed to masquerade as the apt package manager on Debian-based Linux systems, had already escalated to root and was running shell commands to confirm its access level,…
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Google Disrupts Chinese Hacker Network Behind 53 Telecom, Gov’t Breaches
Tags: breach, china, cyber, espionage, google, government, group, hacker, infrastructure, intelligence, mandiant, network, threatGoogle and its partners have disrupted a major Chinese state-linked cyber espionage campaign that breached at least 53 telecommunications and government entities across 42 countries on four continents. The operation, led by Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) alongside Mandiant and industry partners, dismantled the infrastructure of a suspected People’s Republic of China (PRC) nexus group…