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The ed tech company that operates Canvas said information impacted by the data breach includes messages, names, email addresses and student ID numbers.

Nearly 200K Zara customers were exposed in a third-party breach linked to ShinyHunters, revealing emails, purchase history, and support data.

Attackers move faster than overwhelmed SOC teams can realistically investigate alerts. Prophet Security breaks down how AI can help analysts investigate alerts faster and focus on real threats.

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The group that stole data from Instructure users claims that it will release the data of students from nearly 9,000 education institutions around the country.

The attack on the Trellix source code repository disclosed last week has been claimed by the RansomHouse threat group, which leaked a small set of images as proof of the intrusion.

Why static IAM falls short for AI agents, and how runtime-scoped, ephemeral credentials reduce risk and misconfigurations.

A researcher found Edge loads saved passwords into computer memory when it starts, making them easier to steal if a device is already compromised.

Agentic AI is more popular than ever, but researchers keep finding trivial ways to hijack LLMs for nefarious purposes.

CISA has given U.S. federal agencies four days to secure their networks against a high-severity vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) exploited in zero-day attacks.

Days after the first attack, ShinyHunters is applying pressure with ransom messages on school login portals.

Quasar Linux RAT (QLNX) harvests DevOps credentials to enable software supply chain attacks with fileless execution and dual rootkit stealth.

PamDOORa Linux backdoor abuses PAM modules for SSH persistence and credential theft, increasing Linux server compromise risks.

1% of low-severity alerts became real breaches across 25M events, exposing weekly missed enterprise threats.

Hackers who gained access to the databases of Spanish fast-fashion retailer Zara stole data belonging to more than 197,000 customers, according to data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned.

A 34-year-old Virginia man was found guilty of conspiring to destroy dozens of government databases after getting fired from his job as a federal contractor.

During a security assessment of Kaspersky USB Redirector, we discovered CVE-2025-68670: a pre-auth RCE in the xrdp server component. Project maintainers promptly patched the vulnerability.

A new Linux zero-day vulnerability, named Dirty Frag, allows local attackers to gain root privileges on most major Linux distributions with a single command.

Dirty Frag exposes Linux systems to root escalation through chained kernel flaws, impacting Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora, and others.

An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today, after a cybercrime group defaced the service's login page with a ransom demand that…

A patch for the flaw, which hackers began targeting in early April, won’t be ready for another week.

Attackers are hitting a frequent target in the network edge space, intruding victim networks through a defect in a widely used mobile endpoint security product.

The ShinyHunters extortion gang has breached education technology giant Instructure again, this time exploiting another vulnerability to deface Canvas login portals for hundreds of colleges and universities.

A new trojan named TCLBanker, which targets 59 banking, fintech, and cryptocurrency platforms, uses a trojanized MSI installer for Logitech AI Prompt Builder to infect systems.

Palo Alto says hackers exploited PAN-OS zero-day CVE-2026-0300 for weeks, gaining root access to exposed firewalls and hiding traces.

AI agents have fundamentally changed the threat model of AI model-based applications. By equipping these models with plugins (also called tools), your agents no longer just generate text; they now read files, search connected databases, run scripts, and perform other tasks to actively operate on your network.

The Trump administration is rebranding the CyberCorps scholarship as CyberAI SFS, mandating AI proficiency for future federal cyber roles. While officials cite "employability" concerns, current scholars say the sudden shift leaves them feeling "unhireable" and forgotten.

A new malware framework called PCPJack is stealing credentials from exposed cloud infrastructure while actively removing TeamPCP's access to the systems.