Your Email Gateway Never Saw It Coming
How an innocent Google search can become tomorrow morning’s ransomware incident. Your security awareness program has spent years teaching employees to be suspicious of phishing emails. That’s still important. But what if there isn’t an email? Imagine one of your engineers needs a new developer tool. They open Google. Type the product name into the […]
The Ransomware That Still Needed a Human
Every few months, cybersecurity gets a new “first.” The first AI worm. The first autonomous attack. The first fully AI-powered ransomware. Headlines move fast. Reality usually takes a little longer. That’s exactly what happened last week. Early reports suggested researchers had documented the first truly agentic ransomware—an AI system capable of compromising a network, moving […]
When the Classroom Gets Hacked: The ShinyHunters Canvas Breach
Finals week is already one of the most stressful times of the academic year. For millions of students in May 2026, it got significantly harder when a threat actor group called ShinyHunters compromised Instructure, the parent company behind Canvas. With 30 million active users and 8,000+ institutional customers, Canvas serves as a central hub for […]