1. Megalodon Supply Chain Attack Poisons 5,500+ GitHub Repositories in Six Hours On May 18, an automated campaign dubbed “Megalodon” pushed 5,718 malicious commits to 5,561 GitHub repositories in a single six-hour window — one of the most aggressive open-source supply chain attacks ever recorded. Using throwaway accounts with forged identities (build-bot, auto-ci, ci-bot, pipeline-bot), […]
Cyber Security Weekly Top 5: Week of May 11-17, 2026
1. Google Thwarts First AI-Driven Zero-Day Exploit Attempt Google’s Threat Intelligence Group revealed it disrupted a hacker operation that used artificial intelligence to discover and weaponize a zero-day vulnerability in a widely used open-source web administration tool. The attackers leveraged an AI model to bypass two-factor authentication and were planning what Google described as a […]
IoT Security: The Device You Forgot Is the One That Gets You Hacked
Why do you need to worry about IoT security? Your office is full of computers you never think about, and that’s a problem. Yes, IoT security is a real thing. Last month, a county clerk in central Kentucky called our office with a problem. Her building’s HVAC system had been acting up for weeks, cycling […]
Cyber Security Weekly Top 5: May 4–10, 2026
1. Canvas Platform Breach Exposes Data of 275 Million Students Nationwide Hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for a massive breach of Instructure’s Canvas learning management system, potentially exposing the personal information of 275 million students across nearly 9,000 educational institutions. Instructure confirmed the attack stemmed from unauthorized access first detected on April 29, with exposed […]
Cyber Security Spring Cleaning: 10 Quick Things You Can Do to Stay Cyber Safe
He didn’t think he was taking about Cyber Security, but he gave me a good idea for cyber security. A hardware store owner in Danville told me last week that he spends one Saturday every April cleaning out his shop, tossing the stuff that piled up over winter, fixing the door latch he kept meaning […]
Cyber Security Weekly Top 5 — Week of April 27 – May 3, 2026
Top 5 Cybersecurity News Stories 1. “Copy Fail” Linux Kernel Vulnerability Puts Virtually Every Distribution at Risk (CVE-2026-31431) A critical local privilege escalation flaw in the Linux kernel’s algif_aead cryptographic module has sent shockwaves through the security community. Dubbed “Copy Fail,” this vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.8 and allows an unprivileged user to […]