There has been yet another development in the hack-and-leak attack on edtech giant Instructure, which was targeted by the ShinyHunters gang in April. When Instructure didn’t pay the gang’s ransom demands to delete the data, ShinyHunters attacked them again, defacing Canvas login pages with a note from ShinyHunters to schools. CNN reports: An apparent cyberattack shut down an […]
The Eastern Herald reports: A critical error in Microsoft’s flagship security platform has sent shockwaves across the global cybersecurity community, after Microsoft Defender wrongly flags DigiCert certs as Trojan, triggering widespread panic among enterprises and system administrators. The issue emerged in early May 2026, when a faulty security intelligence update caused Defender to misidentify trusted DigiCert […]
Security Week reports that Instructure is the latest edtech firm to fall prey to hackers. Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, the edtech firm is best known for Canvas, one of the most widely used learning platforms across educational institutions and other organizations. Disclosed on April 30, the cyberattack was blamed for “disruption to tools […]
Lewis Robertson of Heriot-Watt University writes: Newly published research from a leading computer scientist warns that the use of generative AI to design, train, or perform steps within a machine learning system could increase serious risks. Michael Lones, professor at Heriot-Watt University’s School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, has argued in a new paper that generative […]
The Register reports: French prosecutors say police detained a 15-year-old on April 25 over the alleged theft of millions of records from France Titres (ANTS), the agency handling secure documents. The Paris Prosecutor’s Office announced on Thursday that the minor, suspected of using the online alias “breach3d” and not named because French law protects minors, […]
DEFCROS News reports: Senators Maggie Hassan and Jim Banks are pressing for answers from Navigate360 following a cyberattack that reportedly compromised sensitive student data from school safety tip lines. The incident has raised significant concerns about the security of information intended to protect students and the integrity of the systems designed to facilitate anonymous reporting. […]
The Record reports: A Chinese national accused of being a member of a state-backed hacking group has been extradited to the U.S. from Milan, his lawyer confirmed on Monday. Xu Zewei was arrested in July 2025 by Italian authorities after he was accused by the U.S. of involvement with a Chinese hacking group allegedly responsible for breaking […]
Rhode Island Current reports that the state has settled with Deloitte, the contractor responsible for the RIBridges data breach. A $7 million handshake between the Rhode Island Department of Administration and global consultancy Deloitte over the latter’s role in the 2024 RIBridges data breach has brought the state’s total windfall to $12 million for the […]
The Register reports: A previously unknown threat group using tried-and-tested social engineering tactics – Microsoft Teams chat invitations and helpdesk staff impersonation – is also using custom malware in its data-stealing attacks, according to Google’s Threat Intelligence Group. The threat hunters say they spotted a “large email campaign” in late December 2025. The attack started by spamming […]
The Record reports: A British hacker pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. federal court to participating in a sweeping cybercrime campaign that siphoned at least $8 million in cryptocurrency from companies and individuals, federal prosecutors said. Tyler Robert Buchanan, 24, of Dundee, Scotland, admitted to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count […]
