ShinyHunters Defaces Canvas LMS Portal, Hundreds of Universities Affected
2026-05-08T08:51:46Z•921c633bc509aae0064c92da6fe57bd18792698b876e1c4da758824f5b371bb8
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What happened
Multiple 6–7 May 2026 security reports: ShinyHunters breached Instructure/Vimeo and defaced the Canvas LMS portal, disrupting university access and exposing user records; a malvertising campaign using a fake Claude AI site is distributing a new Beagle backdoor; researcher findings show Microsoft Edge loads saved passwords into memory as cleartext; claims that Google Chrome silently installed a 4GB Gemini Nano model on user devices; Google patched a CVSS 10 Gemini CLI vulnerability that enabled GitHub-issue-based RCE and supply-chain risk; additional reporting highlights ransomware risk from un
Why it matters
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Evidence and limitations
- Source ID
- hackread
- Record identifier
- 921c633bc509aae0064c92da6fe57bd18792698b876e1c4da758824f5b371bb8
- Enrichment time
- 2026-05-08T08:51:46Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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