Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak school’s data
Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak school's data The Instructure-owned learning management platform, Canvas, is down after recently confirming a massive data breach that impacted student names, email addresses, ID numbers, and messages. Students attempting to access the system on Thursday saw a message from the hacking group ShinyHunters, which claimed responsibility for […]
Severe Linux Copy Fail security flaw uncovered using AI scanning help
Severe Linux Copy Fail security flaw uncovered using AI scanning help Nearly every Linux distribution released since 2017 is currently vulnerable to a security bug called “Copy Fail” that allows any user to give themselves administrator privileges. The exploit, publicly disclosed as CVE-2026-31431 on Wednesday, uses a Python script that works across all of the […]
GitHub rushed to fix a critical vulnerability in less than six hours
GitHub rushed to fix a critical vulnerability in less than six hours GitHub employees fixed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in less than six hours last month. Wiz Research used AI models to uncover a vulnerability in GitHub’s internal git infrastructure that could have allowed attackers to access millions of public and private code […]
Anthropic’s Mythos breach was humiliating
Anthropic's Mythos breach was humiliating Anthropic’s tightly controlled rollout of Claude Mythos has taken an awkward turn. After spending weeks insisting the AI model is so capable at cybersecurity that it is too dangerous to release publicly, it appears the model fell into the wrong hands anyway. According to Bloomberg, a “small group of unauthorized […]
Anthropic’s Mythos rollout has missed America’s cyberscurity agency
Anthropic's Mythos rollout has missed America's cyberscurity agency Several US federal agencies are taking up Anthropic’s new cybersecurity model to find vulnerabilities, but one is reportedly not getting in on the action: the nation’s central cybersecurity coordinator. On Tuesday, Axios reported that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) didn’t have access to Mythos Preview, […]
Anthropic’s most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands
Anthropic's most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands Anthropic’s Mythos AI model, a powerful cybersecurity tool that the company said could be dangerous in the wrong hands, has been accessed by a “small group of unauthorised users,” Bloomberg reports. An unnamed member of the group, identified only as “a third-party contractor for […]
Cloud development platform Vercel was hacked
Cloud development platform Vercel was hacked Vercel, a major development platform that hosts and deploys web apps, was compromised, and the hackers are attempting to sell stolen data. A person claiming to be a member of ShinyHunters, which was behind the recent hack of Rockstar Games, posted some data online, including employee names, email addresses, […]
Rockstar Games says hack will have ‘no impact’
Rockstar Games says hack will have 'no impact' Rockstar confirmed on Saturday that some of its data was compromised in a breach of a third-party provider. The group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility, saying it had gained access to the company’s Snowflake instances (a cloud-hosting provider popular with enterprise customers) via Anodot, a cost-monitoring and analytics service. […]
Claude Code leak exposes a Tamagotchi-style ‘pet’ and an always-on agent
Claude Code leak exposes a Tamagotchi-style 'pet' and an always-on agent After Anthropic released Claude Code’s 2.1.88 update, users quickly discovered that it contained a package with a source map file containing its TypeScript codebase, with one person on X calling attention to the leak and posting a file containing the code. The leaked data […]
Okta’s CEO is betting big on AI agent identity
Okta's CEO is betting big on AI agent identity Today, I’m talking with Todd McKinnon, who is co-founder and CEO of Okta, a platform that lets big companies manage security and identity across all the apps and services their employees use. Think of it like login management — actually, that’s a great way to think […]