Cybersecurity
ShinyHunters uses WAF bypass trick in Oracle PeopleSoft attacks
The ShinyHunters extortion gang is using a URL-encoding trick to bypass web application firewall rules that mitigate the Oracle PeopleSoft CVE-2026-35273 flaw, allowing the threat actors to resume widespread exploitation of a flaw on…
Summary
The ShinyHunters extortion gang is using a URL-encoding trick to bypass web application firewall rules that mitigate the Oracle PeopleSoft CVE-2026-35273 flaw, allowing the threat actors to resume widespread exploitation of a flaw on vulnerable servers. Google's Mandiant and Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) say this new technique has allowed the threat actor to once again target PeopleSoft servers that had not applied security updates and instead blocked access to the vulnerable PSEMHUB endpoint using a WAF.
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