Oracle Emergency Mitigations Address Critical PeopleSoft Zero-Day Exploited in Education Sector Data Theft Campaign
Oracle has released emergency mitigations for CVE-2026-35273, a critical unauthenticated remote code execution zero-day in PeopleSoft PeopleTools versions 8.61 and 8.62, actively exploited by the ShinyHunters extortion gang in data theft attacks targeting over 100 organizations, primarily in the U.S. education sector. Mandiant confirmed the exploitation chain involving staging servers, MeshCentral agents, and data exfiltration to ShinyHunters-linked infrastructure, with 68 percent of victims in higher education. Read more