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Add section name here The then-teen was told to break in and steal what the keyboard warriors couldn’t A 20-year-old described as a cybercriminal organization’s "last resort" for cryptocurrency thefts will now serve a 78-month sentence for his role in a $250 million scheme. Marlon Ferro,
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* ShinyHunters claim the Instructure attack exposed data from nearly 9,000 schools and 275M individuals * Newly named victims include elite universities (Harvard, MIT, Oxford, Stanford, Cambridge, etc.) and major tech firms * With ransom due May 7, at least 47M students risk exposure if negotiations fail Some of the world’s
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TL;DR ShinyHunters breached Instructure’s Canvas learning management system, claiming 3.65 terabytes of data from 275 million users across 9,000 institutions worldwide, including private messages between students and teachers. Forty-four Dutch universities and schools are confirmed affected, and the breach, the second at Instructure in eight months,
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Police have arrested and brought 44 charges against three men for allegedly operating an SMS blaster in downtown Toronto. The scheme, which began in November 2025, is the “first known instance” of an SMS blaster operating in Canada, according to the police report. In a statement, the Toronto Police Service
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Software development life cycle (SDLC) defense provider Boost Security has announced raising $4 million in funding, and two acquisitions meant to expand its platform’s capabilities. Bringing the total raised by the startup to $16 million, the new investment came from White Star Capital, Amiral Ventures, Accelia Capital, and Sorensen
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In case you weren’t aware, today is World Password Day. Now, some experts might tell you today that passwords are obsolete and we need to move to new methods of securing accounts. We’re not quite there yet. 1. Complex does not mean secure For a long time, you
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An OAuth token with wide access rights can be stolen stealthily and largely undetectably from Claude Code. Claude Code is an agentic system. This is great for developers but concerning for security teams. Agentic systems can expand the attack surface while operating largely invisibly. A major issue is the OAuth
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Nasscom, in collaboration with Zinnov, recently released the findings of its latest Global Capability Centre (GCC) Landscape Report, titled, “GCC Value Orbit: From Delivery Engine to Enterprise Nerve Centre” on the sidelines of the Nasscom GCC Summit 2026. As per the report findings, India currently hosts 2117 GCCs operating across
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* Utah's SB 73 law targeting VPN users has officially gone into effect * Fight for the Future has slammed the legislation as a "waste of money" * The digital rights group also argues it's "impossible by design" to enforce Utah is making history as
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* A critical buffer overflow flaw (CVE‑2026‑0300) in PAN‑OS User‑ID Authentication Portal is under limited exploitation * The bug allows unauthenticated code execution with root privileges on exposed firewalls * Palo Alto advised restricting portals to trusted networks; fixes are due May 13, 2026 PAN-OS User-ID Authentication Portal, a
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* A leaky directory containing US military data was found in 2024 * Cybernews received a tipoff about the directory and launched an investigation * The leaky directory remained accessible despite CISA being notified A leaky directory containing over 70,000 files relating to military personnel records, contractor records, and images taken inside
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Researchers from Adversa.AI have discovered an issue that allows attackers to abuse Claude Code’s automation, potentially creating a new supply chain threat. Agentic AI is designed to operate automatically and usually invisibly to make our work easier and more efficient. AI code generators are no different. Claude Code
