Top Cyber Security Alerts From Last Week

1. Extortion Group Claims It Stole Personnel Records on Every FBI Employee The hacking group ShinyHunters says it used a zero-day vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft to reach FBI-linked systems, then pivoted into connected AWS infrastructure to pull an estimated two to three terabytes of data. The group claims the haul includes names, home addresses, phone […]

1. Cisco Ships Emergency Patch for a Perfect 10.0 Identity Services Engine Zero-Day Cisco disclosed CVE-2026-76460, a CVSS 10.0 authentication bypass in the Identity Services Engine and ISE-PIC API that lets an unauthenticated remote attacker reach the management interface and execute commands as root. The flaw was already being exploited in the wild when the […]

1. Microsoft Ships Its Largest Patch Tuesday on Record, With Two Zero-Days Already Under Attack Microsoft released roughly 970 security fixes on September 8, the largest single Patch Tuesday in the company’s history by a wide margin. Two of those vulnerabilities were already being exploited before the updates shipped: CVE-2026-81963, a link-following flaw in the […]

1. Manchester Airports Group Breach Exposes 8.7 Million Customers Manchester Airports Group confirmed that an unauthorized third party accessed data belonging to roughly 8.7 million customers across Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports. The exposed records cover car park, lounge and Fast Track bookings plus airport Wi-Fi registrations, including email addresses, phone numbers, postcodes […]

1. Federal Agencies Warn Medusa Ransomware Has Now Hit More Than 500 Critical Infrastructure Organizations The FBI, CISA, and HHS published an updated #StopRansomware advisory on August 18, raising the confirmed Medusa victim count above 500 critical infrastructure organizations, up from roughly 300 in the previous guidance. Investigators note the group has sharply compressed its […]

Top 5 Cyber Security News Stories 1. Six Agencies Issue Joint Advisory on Gunra Ransomware, and Hand Linux Victims a Free Way Out The FBI, CISA, DC3, NSA, U.S. Secret Service, and the Republic of Korea’s National Police Agency published a joint #StopRansomware advisory on Gunra, a Conti-derived double-extortion operation active against government, healthcare, and […]