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Instructure Reaches Ransom Agreement with ShinyHunters to Stop 3.65TB Canvas Leak

Instructure Reaches Ransom Agreement with ShinyHunters to Stop 3.65TB Canvas Leak

Ravie LakshmananMay 12, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security American educational technology company Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, said it reached an “agreement” with a decentralized cybercrime extortion group after it breached its network and threatened… 

OpenAI Launches Daybreak for AI-Powered Vulnerability Detection and Patch Validation

OpenAI Launches Daybreak for AI-Powered Vulnerability Detection and Patch Validation

Ravie LakshmananMay 12, 2026Vulnerability / AI Security OpenAI has launched Daybreak, a new cybersecurity initiative that brings together frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model capabilities and Codex Security to help organizations identify and patch vulnerabilities before… 

iOS 26.5 Brings Default End-to-End Encrypted RCS Messaging Between iPhone and Android

iOS 26.5 Brings Default End-to-End Encrypted RCS Messaging Between iPhone and Android

Ravie LakshmananMay 12, 2026Encryption / Mobile Security Apple on Monday officially released iOS 26.5 with support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to Rich Communication Services (RCS) in beta as part of a “cross-industry effort” to replace… 

TeamPCP Compromises Checkmarx Jenkins AST Plugin Weeks After KICS Supply Chain Attack

TeamPCP Compromises Checkmarx Jenkins AST Plugin Weeks After KICS Supply Chain Attack

Ravie LakshmananMay 11, 2026Supply Chain Attack / DevSecOps Checkmarx has confirmed that a modified version of the Jenkins AST plugin was published to the Jenkins Marketplace. “If you are using Checkmarx Jenkins AST plugin, you… 

cPanel CVE-2026-41940 Under Active Exploitation to Deploy Filemanager Backdoor

cPanel CVE-2026-41940 Under Active Exploitation to Deploy Filemanager Backdoor

Ravie LakshmananMay 11, 2026Vulnerability / Ransomware A threat actor named Mr_Rot13 has been attributed to the exploitation of a recently disclosed critical cPanel flaw to deploy a backdoor codenamed Filemanager on compromised environments. The attack…