Damn, all schools in our district in Washington moved to Instructure last year.

They moved away from Teams because it objectively sucked, but I haven't heard of widespread compromises like this in Microsoft's systems so...

Canvas shouldn't exist in its current form, and neither should have Blackboard.

It's always been as stupid as requiring that your chalkboard, chalk, chairs, bluebooks, pens, paper, gradebook etc etc all come from the same company.

I, for one, am very much looking forward to my IT Gov council meeting tomorrow.

Terrible that this affects children and that their information may be ultimately leaked. They need to be greater consequences in the law for security breaches.

I hate Canvas. I would rather run a course on GitHub. But our university forces it on us. And now this.

I saw this happen to my Canvas account today. At first I thought it was a prank from the school or Instructure. The message was sent to students which makes no sense. Second, the message that was sent basically implies that ShinyHunter is actively getting patched out, and no one is ever going to give into their demands. They're basically saying that they're done and desperate. It's a strange message for ShinyHunter to send, but I think they were trying to pull off a psyop / FUD.

Looking into the payload they sent me this is how they hijacked the screen. Everything in the payload is unchanged except for one line of code:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://instructure-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/account_9363000..." media="all"/>

This links to the following styling sheet:

@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Orbitron:wght@500;7...');

html, body { height: 100% !important; overflow: hidden !important; margin: 0 !important; padding: 0 !important; }

body > * { display: none !important; }

body { display: flex !important; align-items: center !important; justify-content: center !important; background: #07080c !important; }

body::before { content: "" !important; position: fixed !important; inset: 0 !important; z-index: 999998 !important; background: radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% 20%, rgba(255,59,59,.06), transparent 55%), radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% 85%, rgba(125,70,152,.04), transparent 45%), repeating-linear-gradient(0deg, rgba(255,255,255,.035), rgba(255,255,255,.035) 1px, transparent 1px, transparent 3px), #07080c !important; pointer-events: none !important; }

body::after { content: "\A\A" "S H I N Y H U N T E R S" "\A" "rooting your systems since '19 ;)" "\A\A\A" "ShinyHunters has breached Instructure (again)." "\A" "Instead of contacting us to resolve it they" "\A" "ignored us and did some \201Csecurity patches\201D." "\A\A" "\26A0 W A R N I N G" "\A\A" "If any of the schools in the affected list are" "\A" "interested in preventing the release of their" "\A" "data, please consult with a cyber advisory firm" "\A" "and contact us privately at TOX to negotiate a" "\A" "settlement. You have till the end of the day by" "\A" "12 May 2026 before everything is leaked." "\A\A" "Instructure still has until EOD 12 May 2026" "\A" "to contact us." "\A\A" " \25BC DOWNLOAD AFFECTED_SCHOOLS.TXT \25BC" "\A" "91.215.85.103/pay_or_leak/" "\A" "instructure_affected_schools_list.txt" "\A\A" "visit us: shnyhntww34phqoa6dcgnvps2yu7dlwzmy5" "\A" "lkvejwjdo6z7bmgshzayd.onion" !important;

    position: fixed !important;
    z-index: 999999 !important;
    top: 50% !important;
    left: 50% !important;
    transform: translate(-50%, -50%) !important;
    white-space: pre !important;
    text-align: center !important;
    font-family: 'Fira Code', 'Share Tech Mono', monospace !important;
    font-size: clamp(10px, 1.4vw, 14px) !important;
    line-height: 1.55 !important;
    color: #c8dce8 !important;
    background:
        linear-gradient(180deg, rgba(255,255,255,.05) 0%, rgba(255,255,255,.01) 3.2%, transparent 3.2%) !important;
    background-color: #0d0f16 !important;
    border: 2px solid #ff3b3b !important;
    border-radius: 14px !important;
    padding: 16px 32px !important;
    overflow: hidden !important;
    box-shadow:
        0 0 35px rgba(255,59,59,.2),
        0 40px 90px rgba(0,0,0,.65),
        inset 0 0 0 1px rgba(255,255,255,.06),
        inset 0 0 50px rgba(255,59,59,.03) !important;
    animation: pulseWarn 2.5s infinite ease-in-out !important;
    max-width: 94vw !important;
    text-shadow: 0 0 6px rgba(200,220,232,.15) !important;

}

@keyframes pulseWarn { 0% { box-shadow: 0 0 20px rgba(255,59,59,.15), 0 40px 90px rgba(0,0,0,.65), inset 0 0 0 1px rgba(255,255,255,.06); } 50% { box-shadow: 0 0 55px rgba(255,59,59,.4), 0 40px 90px rgba(0,0,0,.65), inset 0 0 0 1px rgba(255,255,255,.06); } 100% { box-shadow: 0 0 20px rgba(255,59,59,.15), 0 40px 90px rgba(0,0,0,.65), inset 0 0 0 1px rgba(255,255,255,.06); } }

The hack is crude, and it seems unlikely that they have any access to Instructure's developer tools.

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