House committee chair calls on Instructure to testify in Canvas hack
ShinyHunters hit Canvas twice, exposing student data via XSS and identity compromise.
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Instructure settles with hackers following massive student data theft
Educational tech firm Instructure reached a deal with hackers after a major Canvas breach exposed data stolen from schools and universities.
US govt seeks Instructure testimony on massive Canvas cyberattack
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Deal Reached With Hackers to Delete Data Stolen From the Canvas Educational Platform
The company that operates online learning system Canvas said it struck a deal with hackers to delete the data they pilfered in a cyberattack that created cha...
Top Video Downloaders in 2026: Why Wondershare UniConverter Remains a Strong Choice
As video content continues to dominate entertainment, education, and social media platforms, more users are searching for reliable…
Instructure Reaches Ransom Agreement with ShinyHunters to Stop 3.65TB Canvas Leak
American educational technology company Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, said it reached an "agreement" with a decentralized cybercrime extortion g...
Canvas cyberattack disrupts universities as ShinyHunters threatens massive data leak
An attack on the popular Instructure Canvas learning management system has caused major disruptions for schools and universities in the US, just as students ...
The hidden smart fridge risks that emerge years after purchase
Household refrigerators are built to last more than a decade. The software, cloud services, and mobile apps that control them are not.
Pressure mounts on Canvas as data leak extortion deadline looms
Attackers affiliated with The Com are threatening to leak data from more than 8,800 school systems if Instructure doesn’t pay a ransom. The post Pressure mou...
Instructure confirms hackers used Canvas flaw to deface portals
Education technology giant Instructure has confirmed that a security vulnerability allowed hackers to modify Canvas login portals and leave an extortion mess...
AI can profile users from ad patterns alone, study finds
A study by UNSW Sydney and QUT involving over 435,000 Facebook ads from 891 Australians revealed that large language models can infer a user's gender, age, e...
11th May – Threat Intelligence Report
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 11th May, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Instructure...
ShinyHunters Escalates Canvas Extortion with School by School Ransom Campaign
ShinyHunters has escalated its Canvas extortion campaign, defacing hundreds of school login pages and threatening to leak stolen data unless institutions neg...
Canvas System Is Online After a Cyberattack Disrupted Thousands of Schools
Tens of thousands of students studying for final exams around the world have regained access to a key online learning system after a cyberattack had earlier ...
Multiple universities forced to reschedule final exams after Canvas cyber incident
On Thursday, dozens of students took to social media to say they saw a message from a cybercriminal group as they navigated through Canvas, an educational pl...
ShinyHunters claims nearly 9,000 schools affected by Canvas data breach
The group that stole data from Instructure users claims that it will release the data of students from nearly 9,000 education institutions around the country...
Cyberattack Hits Canvas System Used by Thousands of Schools as Finals Loom
A system that thousands of schools and universities use went offline due to a cyberattack, creating chaos as students tried to study for finals. The post Cyb...
Roblox chat moderation gets bypassed by leet speak and code words
Roblox runs an automated chat filter at the scale of billions of messages per day. An independent audit of about two million chat messages from four of the p...
Mental health apps are collecting more than emotional conversations
People use mental health apps to talk about depression, trauma and suicidal thoughts in moments they may not share with anyone else. Many users likely assume...
Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide
An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and univ...