Here’s an interesting story we came across over the weekend! The likes of Eurogamer, Windows Central and Tom’s Hardware have all been picking up on a Reddit post in which an Xbox fan claimed to have successfully sued Microsoft. The person in question explained that a few months ago, their Microsoft account got hacked and...Read More

A US Congressman is blasting the Signal messaging app as “not secure” by admitting that hackers hijacked his own account after he fell for a phishing scheme.  On Wednesday, outgoing Rep. Don Bacon (R-Nebraska) went out of his way to urge other US officials to avoid Signal. Russian state-sponsored hackers have been targeting that app,...Read More

A mom of five who was hacked to death in the street — allegedly by Texas sisters named Cookie and Kitty — had just minutes earlier tried calling her best friend, who is tormented by the thought she could have saved her. Caroline “Caro” Peña, 32, called her best pal Christina Salinas at around 1:35...Read More

Like many things in the shadowy world of cyber-crime, an insider threat is something very few people have experience of. Even fewer people want to talk about it. But I was given a unique and worrying experience of how hackers can leverage insiders when I myself was recently propositioned by a criminal gang. “If you...Read More

The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) was one of the affected institutions of the Canvas breach. Photo: Shutterstock Australian universities and TAFEs are rushing to assess their exposure after a breach of Instructure’s Canvas learning management system (LMS) compromised the personal data of up to 275 million students at over 9,000 institutions worldwide. Instructure confirmed...Read More

Image: Flickr – Infosec Images You know the guy at the poker table who reads everyone else’s tells? Someone just stacked the deck specifically for him. Jaredfromsubway.eth — the MEV bot reportedly behind roughly 70% of Ethereum sandwich attacks over a roughly one-year window ending October 2025, according to Cointelegraph Research — got drained for...Read More

Roughly two dozen Klue customers have come forward and confirmed that their Salesforce instances were compromised in a supply chain attack earlier this month. The attack unfolded between June 11 and 12, when hackers used compromised legacy credentials to access the market intelligence platform Klue, obtain OAuth tokens for customers’ Klue integrations, and exfiltrate data...Read More

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. EMILY FENG, HOST: Millions of students in universities in K-12 districts had their data compromised this week as a hack took down Canvas. That’s a classroom...Read More

New York (CNN) — A cyberattack shut down an education platform used by universities and K-12 schools across the US Thursday, depriving students and teachers of essential classroom materials — at a time when many are taking or preparing for final exams. Canvas, a popular, cloud-based digital hub for classrooms, has more than 30 million...Read More

Disruptions for college students dragged into the weekend after hackers briefly took down an online platform used by thousands of schools around the world, from Princeton University in the U.S. to the University of Manchester in the U.K. and the Universidad del Desarrollo in Chile. Instructure Inc., which runs the Canvas service used by students...Read More