Category: Canvas
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FBI warns students and staff that ShinyHunters may come knocking after Canvas breach
FBI warns students and staff that ShinyHunters may come knocking after Canvas breach Having receive a ransom payment for its attack on Canvas, ShinyHunters and other extortion gangs are only likely to be further incentivised to launch similar attacks in future. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Graham Cluley Go…
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Smashing Security podcast #467: How ShinyHunters hacked the world’s biggest universities
Smashing Security podcast #467: How ShinyHunters hacked the world’s biggest universities Welcome to the largest educational data breach in history – affecting nearly 9,000 institutions, every Ivy League university, and 30 million students mid-finals. When Canvas’s parent company refused to pay and announced they had deployed “security patches” instead, the hackers were less than impressed.…