A hacker circulated malware undetected for nearly a month by hijacking downloads for DAEMON Tools, a once-popular software program to run virtual CD and DVD drive files. DAEMON Tools confirmed the incident today after antivirus provider Kaspersky observed “several thousands of infection attempts” involving the virtual mounting software. “At the time of writing this article,...Read More
Updated May 8, 2026, 2:28 a.m. ET Canvas, a cloud-based learning management platform used by thousands of schools and universities, was hacked and disabled for hours as students attempted to access their grades and other class materials on May 7, multiple news organizations and college student newspapers reported. Colleges and universities across the United States,...Read More
Canvas hack impacts Houston-area schools Several Houston-area school districts and universities confirmed that their Canvas platforms were impacted by the nationwide cyberattack on Thursday. FOX 26’s Jillian Hartmann turned to a tech expert for insight. HOUSTON – Canvas, a widely used school learning platform, has reportedly been hacked and is experiencing outages, which are causing...Read More
A string of recent cyberattacks and data breaches involving the systems of major retailers have started affecting shoppers. United Natural Foods, a wholesale distributor that supplies Whole Foods and other grocers, said this week that a breach of its systems was disrupting its ability to fulfill orders — leaving many stores without certain items. In the U.K.,...Read More
Updated May 8, 2026, 10:44 a.m. CT A hacking attack on a learning management platform led to panic among college students nationwide as they attempted to access their grades and other class materials on May 7. Canvas announced May 7 that its parent company, Instructure, experienced a security incident and outage, forcing the platform to...Read More
New Delhi: Abhijeet Dipke, the founder of the Cockroach Janta Party, wrote on X that he does not have access to the online party’s Instagram account. His personal Instagram account has also been hacked, he revealed. “Crackdown on Cockroach Janta Party,” Dipke posted on X Saturday. The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) was created by Dipke...Read More
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Orange County Public Schools has announced a recent “cybersecurity incident” involving Instructure, the company that provides the district’s Canvas learning management system. In a release, district officials said that Instructure had confirmed on May 2 that an “unauthorized third party gained access to certain user data within its systems.” “According to...Read More
Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. After pleading guilty to hacking and extorting from ed tech giant PowerSchool, 19-year-old Matthew Lane was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison and nearly $14.1 million in restitution. The Massachusetts college student was accused of using...Read More
On March 30, BeyondTrust proved that a crafted GitHub branch name could steal Codex’s OAuth token in cleartext. OpenAI classified it Critical P1. Two days later, Anthropic’s Claude Code source code spilled onto the public npm registry, and within hours, Adversa found Claude Code silently ignored its own deny rules once a command exceeded 50...Read More
Yes, GrubHub was hacked. Last week, on Jan 16th 2026, the food ordering platform confirmed to BleepingComputer that it had been affected by a recent data breach. A company spokesperson stated that the company is aware of an incident in which threat actors downloaded data from GrubHub systems. GrubHub has not yet confirmed what type...Read More
