{"id":244051,"date":"2026-05-11T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/nu-cybersecurity-expert-weighs-in-on-canvas-cyber-attack\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T00:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:10:06","slug":"nu-cybersecurity-expert-weighs-in-on-canvas-cyber-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/nu-cybersecurity-expert-weighs-in-on-canvas-cyber-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"NU Cybersecurity expert weighs in on Canvas cyber attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/2026\/05\/12\/nu-cybersecurity-expert-weighs-canvas-cyber-attack\/\">NU Cybersecurity expert weighs in on Canvas cyber attack<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/2026\/05\/12\/nu-cybersecurity-expert-weighs-canvas-cyber-attack\/\">https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/2026\/05\/12\/nu-cybersecurity-expert-weighs-canvas-cyber-attack\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-11 23:33:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wowt.com\">www.wowt.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) &#8211; Millions of students worldwide are dealing with the fallout from a major cyberattack on one of the most widely used education platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hackers targeted Canvas, disrupting access for more than 8,000 universities and their students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It was the last week of school. Students were cramming for finals. The platform they use to turn in homework and tests was not working.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI do have two finals left that I have to submit online through Canvas,\u201d said Trini Finke, a UNO student.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Like Finke at UNO, millions of students had to end the school year with the same chaos.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"header | article-header w-100\">Criminal group claims responsibility<\/h3>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cTaking down a system like that, at that time is almost certainly intentional,\u201d said Matt Hale, director of Matrix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hale is the director of Matrix, the cybersecurity system used by the NU system. They track threats in real time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThey are very commonly known to attack large single points of failure that can sort of affect many different organizations,\u201d Hale said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The group that claimed the Canvas cyberattack goes by the name of ShinyHunters, a criminal group Hale said he is familiar with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThey have attacked Google, Gucci, Adidas, Salesforce, you name it. They have been responsible for a number of high profile attacks,\u201d Hale said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Within seconds, these hackers have access to private student and faculty data, threatening to release it unless a ransom is paid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIf they don\u2019t, which is also quite frequently the case, then they go public with it and take down the system, and post some of the data,\u201d Hale said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Within days, students were able to use Canvas again. But Hale thinks now that ShinyHunters has found a weakness in the system, another attack is imminent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIf it\u2019s not tomorrow, it will be a month from now. If it is not a month from now it will be a year,\u201d Hale said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Matrix is one of the university\u2019s first lines of defense when it comes to cybercrime. They also teach classes to train students to fight cybercrimes and illegal uses of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/2026\/05\/12\/nu-cybersecurity-expert-weighs-canvas-cyber-attack\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NU Cybersecurity expert weighs in on Canvas cyber attack https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/2026\/05\/12\/nu-cybersecurity-expert-weighs-canvas-cyber-attack\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-11 23:33:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gray-wowt-prod.gtv-cdn.com\/resizer\/v2\/EAPUF5DWKBFYJDLTY2TUZIVHCE.jpg?auth=3e3951a821a064971ba2dbe6ec1fa85bf4afcdc35bdf49be3c29a3f169d8589e&width=1200&height=600&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244053,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244051\/revisions\/244053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}