Current security news from curated sources

Mexican Water Utility AI-Assisted Breach

NEOSEC summary pending — original source not mirrored verbatim.

Instructure Canvas Free-for-Teacher breach (ShinyHunters)

In May 2026 Instructure confirmed a security incident involving Canvas Free-for-Teacher after ShinyHunters claimed theft of data tied to hundreds of millions of users. Exposed data included names, emails, student IDs and some private messages; Instructure said it had no evidence passwords or financial/government IDs were taken.

Adobe Security Bulletin · April 2026

Anthropic investigates unauthorized access to Claude Mythos Preview via vendor

In April 2026 Anthropic said it was investigating reports that unauthorized users accessed its unreleased vulnerability-discovery tool Claude Mythos Preview through a third-party vendor environment rather than a direct Anthropic system compromise (Bloomberg / CRN reporting).

Stryker hit by Handala data-wiping attack

In March 2026 medical-tech company Stryker suffered a disruptive attack on its Microsoft environment. Iran-linked Handala claimed responsibility, alleging mass device wipes after domain-admin compromise. CISA warned organizations to harden endpoint management. Stryker reported being fully operational by early April.

LexisNexis breach (FulcrumSec claims React2Shell path)

In March 2026 LexisNexis confirmed a breach of legacy servers exposing customer business contact and related data. Threat actor FulcrumSec claimed access via an unpatched React frontend “React2Shell” (CVE-2025-55182) into AWS infrastructure. LexisNexis said the matter was contained and mostly deprecated pre-2020 data.

European Commission & Dutch authorities hit via Ivanti EPMM zero-days

February 2026: European Commission and Dutch DPA/Judicial Council confirmed breaches through critical Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile zero-days. Dutch incident exposed work contact data; Commission said it contained its breach within nine hours.

ShinyHunters leak Crunchbase data (~2M records)

In January 2026 ShinyHunters targeted Crunchbase and later published more than 2 million records after ransom refusal, including names, contacts, addresses and internal documents.

Mixpanel smishing breach exposes OpenAI API users' names and emails

Mixpanel detected a smishing campaign on November 8, 2025 that led to an export of some customers' analytics data. OpenAI said limited API-platform user data was exposed (names, emails, coarse location, browser/OS, org and user IDs), but no chats, prompts, API keys, passwords or payment data. OpenAI removed Mixpanel from production.

Discord support vendor breach exposes ~70,000 government ID photos

An attacker got into a third-party customer-service system Discord used, exposing data of users who had contacted Support or Trust & Safety. About 70,000 users may have had government ID photos (from age-verification appeals) accessed. Discord named the vendor as 5CA, which denied its systems were hacked.

Red Hat Consulting GitLab breached: ~800 customer engagement reports stolen

The Crimson Collective broke into a self-managed GitLab instance used by Red Hat Consulting and claimed about 570 GB from 28,000 repos, including roughly 800 Customer Engagement Reports with infrastructure, config and credential details. Red Hat confirmed the access and said its products, supply chain and hosted services were not affected. ShinyHunters later joined the extortion.

Asahi ransomware attack halts orders and beer shipments in Japan (Qilin claims it)

A ransomware attack on September 29, 2025 stopped Asahi Group's order processing, shipments and call centres in Japan and briefly halted its six Japanese beer plants. Asahi confirmed ransomware and possible data theft; Qilin claimed the attack and leaked files it said were stolen.

SonicWall: state actor stole firewall config backups of every cloud-backup customer

SonicWall and Mandiant confirmed that a state-sponsored actor used an API call to pull firewall configuration backup files for all customers using MySonicWall cloud backup, after first saying fewer than 5% were affected. The files include credentials and network details, so customers had to reset firewall, VPN, directory and API secrets.

Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack stops car production for five weeks

A cyberattack that began on August 31, 2025 forced JLR to shut down IT systems and halt production worldwide from September 1. A phased restart began October 8; UK production was back to normal by November 14. The UK government guaranteed a £1.5B loan to keep JLR's suppliers afloat.

F5 breached by nation-state actor: BIG-IP source code and undisclosed bugs stolen

F5 disclosed that a sophisticated nation-state actor had long-term access to its BIG-IP development and engineering systems and stole parts of the BIG-IP source code, information on undisclosed vulnerabilities and some customer configuration data. CISA issued Emergency Directive 26-01 ordering agencies to inventory and patch F5 gear. Researchers linked it to China-nexus UNC5221 and BRICKSTORM.

Salesloft Drift OAuth tokens used to raid 700+ companies' Salesforce data (UNC6395)

Between August 8 and 18, 2025, UNC6395 used stolen OAuth tokens for the Salesloft Drift chatbot integration to bulk-export data from customers' Salesforce instances, hunting for AWS keys, Snowflake tokens, passwords and VPN credentials. Cloudflare, Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler and many others disclosed exposure. Salesforce pulled Drift from AppExchange.

Ingram Micro SafePay ransomware takes down ordering systems for a week

SafePay ransomware hit IT distributor Ingram Micro around July 3, 2025, taking down its website, ordering systems, the Xvantage platform and Impulse licensing. Ingram Micro took systems offline and restored order processing globally by July 9-10.

Qantas: 5.7M customers' data stolen from a contact-centre platform

A cyber criminal accessed a third-party customer-service platform used by a Qantas contact centre. After deduplication, 5.7M unique customers were affected: names, emails, frequent-flyer details, and for some phone numbers, birth dates, addresses, gender and meal preferences. No passwords, PINs, card or passport data were taken.

Vishing campaign steals Salesforce data from Google and others (UNC6040 / ShinyHunters)

UNC6040 phoned employees posing as IT support and talked them into authorizing a modified Salesforce Data Loader app, then bulk-exported their Salesforce data. Google's own corporate Salesforce instance (prospective Ads customer contacts) was hit in June 2025. Extortion followed under the ShinyHunters name (UNC6240).

Coinbase: bribed support contractors leak data of 69,461 customers, $20M ransom refused

Criminals bribed overseas support staff to pull customer data (names, contact details, partial financial data, ID images, balances and transactions), then demanded $20M. Coinbase refused, offered a matching bounty, and estimated $180M to $400M in costs. No passwords, private keys or funds were accessed directly.