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Illustration of students affected by a cybersecurity breach
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ShinyHunters hit Canvas LMS for the second time. 275 million student records, 9,000 schools.

ShinyHunters breached Canvas LMS again, claiming 275 million records from 9,000 schools. Names, emails, student IDs, and private messages exposed.

A padlock on a chain, illustrating credential security.
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Microsoft Edge keeps every saved password in cleartext memory. Microsoft calls it 'by design'.

A researcher showed Edge decrypts the entire password vault at launch and leaves it in process memory. Chrome decrypts on demand. Microsoft says it's intentional.

Lightning AI logo on a dark background, illustrating the PyPI supply chain compromise of the lightning Python package.
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Mini Shai-Hulud hit PyTorch Lightning. The 11.6M-download PyPI package shipped a credential stealer.

Two malicious lightning releases hit PyPI on April 30. The 42-minute window was enough to ship an RSA-encrypted infostealer to ML developers worldwide.

WatchTowr Labs disclosure illustration for the cPanel and WHM authentication bypass CVE-2026-41940
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70 million domains had a no-password root bypass. cPanel rushed an emergency patch.

cPanel shipped fixes April 28 for a CVSS 9.8 auth bypass that walks attackers into shared-hosting panels with no password. WatchTowr says exploitation started before the patch.

Socket security research card promoting the CanisterWorm Namastex compromise analysis.
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Another npm worm: CanisterWorm hits 16 Namastex packages and reaches PyPI on the same hop

Socket flagged a self-propagating worm in @automagik/genie, pgserve, and 14 sibling Namastex Labs packages. It steals 40 credential categories and republishes itself.

Aikido Security illustration of the GPT-Proxy backdoor.
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Malicious npm and PyPI packages turn dev servers into Chinese LLM proxies

Aikido found a stage-2 Go binary inside two health-check-themed packages that runs an OpenAI-compatible router routing Claude, GPT, and Gemini traffic through Chinese aggregators.

Bitwarden CLI compromised by the Shai-Hulud npm worm
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Bitwarden CLI got backdoored for 90 minutes. The worm calls itself 'Shai-Hulud: The Third Coming.'

A malicious @bitwarden/cli@2026.4.0 hit npm on April 22. The payload steals npm tokens, cloud secrets, and Claude Code credentials, then self-replicates.