Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Mandiant: 68% of Targets Were Higher Ed Institutions Running PeopleSoftShinyHunters 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.

CRM-Obsessed ShinyHunters Gang Exploits Misconfigured Customer Experience PortalsA prolific and noisy cybercrime gang with a penchant for stealing Salesforce customers' data and holding it ransom is taking advantage of misconfigured guest accounts meant to provide public access to services meant to remain private, using a Google scanning tool to identify vulnerable accounts.