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The extortion group ShinyHunters recently breached Instructure, the company behind the widely used Canvas learning management system. This attack hit educational institutions across the world and serves as a massive wake-up call for K-12 supply chain security.
The attackers claim to have stolen 3.65 terabytes of data affecting 275 million students, teachers, and staff across near...
The incident demonstrates the failure of traditional security models built on perimeter defense when trust is outsourced to vendors. The core pattern is the implicit assumption that the security posture of a trusted partner (Instructure) extends beyond the direct control of the consumer (school districts). This pattern relies on a "security by delegation" model, where the defense boundary is assumed to be the institution's firewall, ignoring the internal, complex flow of data through the cloud i...