Microsoft Windows 11 April 2026 Security Update Breaks Third-Party Backup Applications

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April 30, 2026 Microsoft’s April 2026 cumulative security update for Windows 11 is causing significant disruptions for users relying on third-party backup software, triggering an MS-DEFCON level 3 advisory from security patch analyst Susan Bradley at AskWoody. The problematic update, …

Qilin Ransomware Enumerates RDP Authentication History on a Compromised Server

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April 30, 2026 Qilin ransomware is one of the most active and damaging threats in the cyber landscape today. The group has steadily evolved its tactics since it first appeared in 2022, and its latest technique of enumerating Remote Desktop …

Targeted Large-Scale Campaign Attacking U.S. Organizations with Fake Event Invitations

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April 30, 2026 A large-scale phishing campaign is actively targeting organizations across the United States, using fake event invitations to deceive employees into handing over their corporate login credentials. The operation is wide in reach and strikes some of the …

Anti-DDoS Firm Heaped Attacks on Brazilian ISPs

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A Brazilian tech firm that specializes in protecting networks from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has been enabling a botnet responsible for an extended campaign of massive DDoS attacks against other network operators in Brazil, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The firm’s chief …

OpenAI Releases 5-Point Action Plan to Strengthen AI-Powered Cyber Defense

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April 30, 2026 OpenAI has published a comprehensive cybersecurity action plan titled “Cybersecurity in the Intelligence Age: An Action Plan for Democratizing AI-Powered Cyber Defense,” outlining a five-pillar strategy to equip trusted defenders with advanced AI capabilities while preventing adversarial …

CVE MCP Server Turns Claude Into a Full-Spectrum Security Analyst With 27 Tools Across 21 APIs

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April 30, 2026 A new open-source project called CVE MCP Server is redefining how security teams triage vulnerabilities, transforming Anthropic’s Claude AI into a fully capable security analyst by giving it direct, correlated access to 27 intelligence tools spanning 21 …

Claude-Generated Commit Adds PromptMink Malware to Crypto Trading Agent

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April 30, 2026 A new threat has quietly taken root in the software development world, using an AI coding assistant as an unknowing participant in a supply chain attack. A malicious npm package campaign called PromptMink surfaced after being introduced …

Cursor AI Extension Access Developer Tokens Leads to Full Credential Compromise

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A high-severity access-control vulnerability (CVSS 8.2) in Cursor, a widely used AI-powered coding environment. The flaw uncovered by LayerX has allowed any installed extension to access a developer’s API keys and session tokens secretly. This results in total credential compromise …

Linux Kernel 0-Day “Copy Fail” Roots Every Major Distribution Since 2017

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April 30, 2026 A critical zero-day vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been publicly disclosed, enabling any unprivileged local user to obtain root access on virtually every major Linux distribution shipped since 2017. Dubbed “Copy Fail” and tracked as CVE-2026-31431, …

SAP npm Packages Compromised to Harvest Developer and CI/CD Secrets

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April 29, 2026 A new supply chain attack dubbed “mini Shai Hulud” has compromised four SAP-related npm packages by injecting malicious preinstall scripts that silently execute during dependency installation, targeting developer environments and CI/CD pipelines to steal credentials across GitHub, …