Top Cyber Security Alerts From Last Week

1. ShinyHunters Leaks Data on 42 Million Charter Communications Customers The ShinyHunters extortion group published a trove allegedly stolen from Charter Communications, the telecom giant behind the Spectrum brand, after the company let a May 27 ransom deadline pass. The attackers say they gained entry through a voice-phishing (vishing) call that compromised an employee’s Microsoft […]

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), […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]