ShinyHunters-linked attackers defaced Canvas portals, disrupting finals week access and exposing SaaS security risks for schools.

Instructure, parent company of the education platform Canvas, said it took “immediate steps” to contain the hack before ...

Dirty Frag is a newly disclosed Linux local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting kernel networking and ...

Similar to the “Copy Fail” exploit revealed a week ago, the two “Dirty Frag” exploits (CVE-2026-43284) also allow a local user to give themselves root privileges on nearly any Linux distribution. The ...

In this episode, Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start things off by discussing the latest reason that cheap PCB fabrication isn’t quite as cheap as it once was. The ...

Hot on the heels of Copy Fail comes Dirty Frag. A Linux kernel zero-day vulnerability with no patch, giving hackers root.

After the CopyFail vulnerability gave root access from any user on almost all distributions last week, this week we’ve got DirtyFrag. This chains the vulnerability in CopyFail (xfrm-ESP) and ...

The PCPJack worm targets cloud environments and vulnerable web applications to remove TeamPCP infections and steal ...

ZiChatBot malware spread via 3 PyPI packages in July 2025 uses Zulip APIs as C2, enabling stealthy attacks across systems ...

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A sustained DDoS attack disrupted Ubuntu installs, updates, and Canonical’s web infrastructure The outage lasted nearly a ...

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