Originally published on satyamrastogi.com

Instructure's ransom agreement with ShinyHunters over a 3.65TB Canvas breach demonstrates how education sector settlements fund extortion infrastructure, enabling scaled attacks against schools lacking incident response maturity.

Instructure Ransom Settlement: Why Education Sector Capitulation Enables Extortion Scaling

Executive Summary

Instructure's announcement of reaching an "agreement" with ShinyHunters over a 3.65TB data exfiltration represents a tactical capitulation that fundamentally weakens the education sector's collective defense posture.…