Chaos erupts as cyberattack disrupts learning platform Canvas amid finals

Ars Technica's recent security coverage highlights a wave of high-impact incidents and trends: a nationwide cyberattack disrupted the Canvas learning platform during finals; a month-long supply-chain compromise backdoored the widely used Daemon Tools disk utility; an open-source package (element-data) was caught exfiltrating credentials; targeted supply-chain compromises affected security vendors including Checkmarx and Bitwarden; and Ubuntu infrastructure outages impeded coordination around a critical root‑granting vulnerability. Separately, researchers disclosed CopyFail — described as oneof