The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle

Thousands of schools around the US were paralyzed on Thursday after education tech firm Instructure shut down access to its ...

Instructure breach update: ShinyHunters claim second hack, deface school websites

ShinyHunters apparently isn't done with edutech giant Instructure.

Instructure hackers claim they stole data from nearly 9,000 schools

ShinyHunters, the extortion group that infiltrated cloud-based educational tech provider Instructure, claims to have stolen ...

What to Know About the Canvas Cyberattack That’s Affected Thousands of Schools

A hacker group appears to be holding the company behind the popular learning management system hostage.

Canvas back up after ShinyHunters hack forced shutdown

Canvas, a cloud-based learning management platform used by thousands of schools and universities, is back up after it was ...

ShinyHunters Extorts Universities in New Instructure Canvas Hack

ShinyHunters-linked attackers defaced Canvas portals, disrupting finals week access and exposing SaaS security risks for schools.

Canvas hack impacting New York, New Jersey schools, universities amid finals season

A cyberattack by a group called ShinyHunters is impacting thousands of students in the New York area and across the country ...

Hacker group disables Canvas for NC students during crucial end-of-school-year stretch

On Thursday, a hacker group called "ShinyHunters" said it was responsible for a data breach of Instructure, which manages ...
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This Week In Security: Another Linux Exploit, Ubuntu Knocked Offline, Finals Interrupted, And Backdoored Tools

After the CopyFail vulnerability gave root access from any user on almost all distributions last week, this week we’ve got DirtyFrag. This chains the vulnerability in CopyFail (xfrm-ESP) and ...