and the patch becomes a planned event instead of an emergency. Planned does not mean optional. “A month ago, the ShinyHunters gang went back to PeopleSoft servers whose owners had relied on a WAF rule instead of patching, and got past it by changing one...

cyber disruption or violence”. The Com, it is believed, is thought to have links to cyber extortion groups such as ShinyHunters and other hacking collectives. “These online groups go hunting for victims on social media or online games, and many victims...

member by Dutch authorities. Brett Leatherman, assistant director of the FBI, has delivered a stark warning to the ShinyHunters cyber extortion group. Leatherman took to YouTube to announce the arrest of a Dutch national alleged to be one of the leaders...

data on almost ALL FBI Agents”. Not content with picking a fight with fellow hackers Cl0p over a 2025 disagreement, the ShinyHunters cyber extortion group has turned its sights on a new target: the United States FBI. The group made several explosive...

where it may end up. A long-running feud between two prominent cyber extortion groups has exploded into action after the ShinyHunters group hacked and then defaced the dark web leak site belonging to the Cl0p extortion operation. The beef began on 19...

that “certain data” may have been accessed without authorisation. Then, only a week later, cyber extortionist group ShinyHunters claimed it had stolen more than 200,000 licence scans from the US state of Florida’s Driver and Vehicle Information...

firm ReliaQuest has shared details of an attempted social engineering attack targeting its employees, hours after the ShinyHunters cyber extortion group claimed to be behind the incident. “On August 22, 2026, ReliaQuest was the target of a social...

Prolific cyber extortion group ShinyHunters promises “several (annoying) digital problems” for the computer hardware giant. The ShinyHunters hacking collective claims to have collected another high-profile scalp, this time PC hardware and gaming brand...

affected customers and that its operations had been unaffected. RingCentral’s disclosure comes a month after the ShinyHunters cyber extortion group listed the company as a victim on its darknet leak site. At the time, the hackers claimed to have gained...

A 26-year-old admits to stealing the data of millions of individuals during a widely reported months-long hacking spree. A 26-year-old Canadian man arrested in October 2024 pleaded guilty last week to a string of data breaches targeting compromised...

Infamous cyber extortion group ShinyHunters gives the professional services giant until the end of the month to pay up or face a data leak. “Yes, it was us.” That’s how the ShinyHunters extortion group claimed responsibility for a cyber incident first...

Instructure/Canvas breach, which saw schools across the country impacted by a third-party breach perpetrated by the ShinyHunters cyber extortion group, one finding is particularly galling. According to the Audit Office, while 98 per cent of schools use...

Nissan pins employee data breach on Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day as ShinyHunters hacking spree continues. Car maker Nissan began informing current and former employees late last week of a data breach driven by a vulnerability in the software used to...

CVE-2026-35273 last week – but hackers had already been exploiting it for almost two weeks. The cyber extortion group ShinyHunters is a past master at taking advantage of vulnerabilities in widely used platforms, and according to recent reporting from...

a threat actor. Earlier this year, GTA V developer Rockstar Games also confirmed a cyber attack, after infamous hackers ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for a breach of cloud data platform Snowflake. The hackers listed Rockstar Games as a victim in...

The confirmed cyber incident impacting Carnival Cruise Line was reportedly the action of infamous threat group ShinyHunters. Based on reports, the incident allegedly occurred when ShinyHunters breached the cruise operator’s supply chain, when a...

the incident.” While 7-Eleven did not mention the number of people impacted or identify the threat actor, infamous group ShinyHunters claimed the incident and has leaked allegedly stolen files online. “Over 600k Salesforce records containing PII and...

Following the ShinyHunters Instructure hack, the morals of paying a ransom to cyber criminals have been a hot-button issue, but what do you really need to know before considering making that payment? A lot of organisations are pretty firm about whether...

the recent resolution: We have nothing to add on or comment regarding the recent situation at the LMS company,” the ShinyHunters group said in a 13 May press statement on its dark web leak site. “If you are an impacted institution, we are not seeking...

for all the wrong reasons over the last seven or so days, following a comprehensive breach of its Canvas platform by the ShinyHunters cyber extortion group. Millions of students and educators have had their personal details compromised, and the Canvas...