AI is separating the companies built to scale from the ones built to sell

Multiple related cybersecurity incidents and trends: attackers are threatening mass data-leak extortion against Instructure’s Canvas (groups named The Com and ShinyHunters claim data from ~8,800–9,000 schools), creating a large-scale risk to the education sector and student PII. Separately, researchers and vendors reported multiple zero-day issues and active exploitation: an Ivanti ePMM zero-day being actively exploited against network-edge/mobile endpoint products, and Google identifying an AI-developed zero-day (malware/artifacts showing heavy AI involvement) that a crime group planned to/wr