AI-built ransomware toolkit automates EDR evasion, AD discovery

A threat actor is using an AI-built ransomware attack toolkit that automates Active Directory discovery and helps evade ...
The Hacker News

TrapDoor Supply Chain Attack Spreads Credential-Stealing Malware via npm, PyPI, and CratesIO

TrapDoor spread 34 malicious packages across npm, PyPI, and Crates.io, stealing developer credentials and enabling persistence.
The Guardian

Canvas hack: is it ever a good idea to pay a ransom, and what happens to the data?

Businesses are advised against paying – but many are prepared to deal to protect users’ privacy After a week of outages, hundreds of millions of students’ data stolen, delayed assignment due dates and ...
Forbes

The Canvas Hack Shows Ransomware Isn’t Going Anywhere

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Instructure, the parent company of the popular online education platform Canvas, this week ...
KQED

Canvas Hack: Instructure Agrees to Ransom Deal in Exchange for Stolen Data

Data stolen in last week’s widespread cyberattack on an educational platform that affected students and schools across the Bay Area and the country has been returned, the targeted company said Monday.
BBC

Canvas hack: Company pays criminals to delete students' stolen data

The company behind the popular Canvas software, which was hacked last week causing major disruption at thousands of universities and colleges, has paid the hackers not to publish stolen data online.
CNN

Data stolen in Canvas hack that hit thousands of schools has been returned, company says

Data stolen in a cyberattack that shut down an education platform used by universities and K-12 schools across the US last week has been returned to the platform’s parent company, Instructure, ...
Forbes

After The Canvas Hack, Here’s What Students And Colleges Should Do Next

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The Canvas hack left students scrambling to study for finals. Last Thursday, as students at ...
Mashable

Instructure Canvas hack update: Breach involved a specific teacher account type and interrupted finals

Students have struggled with Canvas downtime due to a data breach during school finals. Credit: Piotr Swat/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The hacking collective ShinyHunters says it ...
NPR

What to know about the Canvas hack of student data

Millions of students in universities and K-12 districts had their data compromised this week as a hack took down Canvas, a classroom management tool used all over the country. Millions of students in ...
Bleeping Computer

JDownloader site hacked to replace installers with Python RAT malware

The website for the popular JDownloader download manager was compromised earlier this week to distribute malicious Windows and Linux installers, with the Windows payload found deploying a Python-based ...