Top 5 Cyber Security News Stories 1. ShinyHunters Exploit Oracle PeopleSoft Flaw, Hit 100+ Organizations Including Nissan The ShinyHunters group ran a sweeping campaign this week exploiting a vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft to break into HR and payroll systems at more than 100 organizations. Nissan was among the most prominent victims, with attackers exfiltrating sensitive […]
10 Cyber Security Wake-Up Calls The First Half of 2026
In April, Chelan County, Washington, shut down its entire network, phone lines, and public websites after a malware attack, and officials had no timeline for when normal service would return. That is not a hypothetical scenario from a conference slide. That is six months into 2026, and it is one of 10 stories that tell […]
Cyber Security Weekly Roundup: Week of June 29 – July 5, 2026
1. FBI Dismantles NetNut, One of the World’s Largest Residential Proxy Networks On July 3, the FBI and private-sector partners took down NetNut, a residential proxy service built on roughly 2 million secretly hijacked home devices. The network had quietly routed criminal traffic — from credential stuffing to fraud — through ordinary people’s routers and […]
Cyber Security Weekly: Top 5 News Stories for the Week of June 22–28, 2026
1. LastPass Confirms Customer Data Stolen in Klue Supply Chain Breach LastPass disclosed that the Icarus extortion group used OAuth tokens stolen in a supply chain attack against market-intelligence vendor Klue to access customer records within its Salesforce environment. Exposed data included names, phone numbers, email and physical addresses, and support case records, though LastPass […]
What a Nonprofit Needs to Know About Cyber Security in 2026
Last winter, a nonprofit food pantry director in a town of about 6,000 people called me after what could have been a very bad week. Someone had impersonated her board chair in an email and asked the bookkeeper to transfer $4,200 to a new account. The bookkeeper, who works two jobs and answers emails between […]
Cyber Security Weekly: Top 5 News Stories for the Week of June 15th
1. Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager zero-day under active exploitation (CVE-2026-20245). Attackers are actively exploiting a privilege-escalation flaw in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager that lets an authenticated local user upload a crafted file and execute commands as root. At the time of writing, no patch is available, leaving network operators dependent on access controls and monitoring. […]