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Vulnerabilities

OnlyFans Creators Are Accidentally Fixing Government Website Security

Adult content creators filing copyright takedowns are, as a side effect, helping university and government IT teams find hacked pages on their own websites.

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Breaches

Calgary university loses student and staff files to hackers who wiped the originals

Mount Royal University says a June 17 break-in ended with stolen data on shared drives and a ransom demand of 30 bitcoin from a group calling itself CMD Organization.

3 min read
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Ransomware

When the Learning Platform Goes Dark, There Is No Backup Plan

A finals-week breach of a major university software platform in 2026 left students locked out of coursework and grade books. Higher education has proved twice it will pay ransoms. That changes everything.

3 min read
Vulnerabilities

ShinyHunters Rode a PeopleSoft Zero-Day Into University Networks

A CVSS 9.8 RCE flaw in Oracle PeopleSoft gave UNC6240 a two-week head start before Oracle even confirmed the bug existed.

2 min read
Threat Intelligence

ShinyHunters Hit Universities Through PeopleSoft Zero-Day Before Oracle Patch

Mandiant ties a two-week extortion spree against Oracle PeopleSoft deployments to UNC6240, the cluster better known as ShinyHunters.

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