A system that thousands of schools and universities use to support instruction was back online Friday after it went down during a cyberattack that created chaos as students tried to study for final exams. The hacking group named ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach at Canvas, said Luke Connolly, a threat analyst at the cybersecurity firm Emisoft....Read More
A student allegedly hacked IIT Kanpur and IIT Madras websites after being denied admission. Here’s what happened and why IIT is considering a second chance. For years, students across India have worked towards securing a place at an IIT, often after months of intense preparation and competition. But one admission rejection has led to an...Read More
Transcript SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST: It’s CONSIDER THIS, where every day we go deep on one big news story. Today, a hacking incident and the future of AI. Earlier this month, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, said two of its AI models were involved in a, quote, “unprecedented cyber incident.” The models autonomously hacked into another...Read More
Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar Games has been targeted for a second time in three years by hackers. The data breach affecting the gaming giant was reported by cybersecurity news outlets on Saturday, after a group of hackers claimed responsibility. In posts viewed by outlets, the criminals said they gained access to Rockstar servers managed...Read More
A nationwide cyberattack affecting a widely used learning platform disrupted universities and school districts across the United States during finals week on Thursday, as hackers demanded a ransom. Canvas, a cloud-based platform used by more than 30 million users globally, acts as a central hub for grades, assignments and communication between students and staff. Its...Read More
Even as Game of Thrones reached its climactic final season, Emilia Clarke was dealing with more than just the fate of Daenerys Targaryen. In a recent interview, Clarke revealed that she once had both the Game of Thrones season 8 scripts and her Star Wars: Solo script sitting in her email inbox — a combination...Read More
A hacker this week took control of Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet’s X account, using it to promote what appears to be a cryptocurrency scam. Two posts advertising a so-called “crypto-trading expert” appeared on Blanchet’s X page Tuesday and Wednesday, claiming that while the Bloc leader had been a former skeptic of cryptocurrency, the expert’s...Read More
The group, known as Handala, said in a post on the social media platform X that it had hacked an iPhone belonging to Braverman and would release documents later in the day related to what it called “Bibi Gate,” an apparent reference to allegations surrounding Netanyahu’s inner circle. Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office said no breach...Read More
Rainbow Six Siege can’t catch a break. For the second time in the last two weeks, Rainbow Six Siege X has been hacked. Ubisoft’s multiplayer first-person shooter was only recently brought back from a debilitating series of hacks that gave players billions of free in-game currency over the holiday season. However, the game was hacked again...Read More
Irony, thy name is hacking.
BreachForums, an infamous forum used by hackers to distribute leaked and stolen data, recently suffered a data breach of its own, resulting in the compromise of almost 324,000 accounts. According to Bleeping Computer, an archive containing an SQL file, a text file, and a PGP key file popped up on...Read More
