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The Hacker News - Newly Discovered PowMix Botnet Hits Czech Workers Using Randomized C2 Traffic

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of an active malicious campaign that's targeting the workforce in the Czech Republic with a previously undocumented botnet dubbed PowMix since at least December 2025. "PowMix employs randomized command-and-control (C2) beaconing intervals, rather than persistent connection to the C2 server, to evade the network signature detections," Cisco Talos from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/newly-discovered-powmix-botnet-hits.html

KnowBe4 - Early Results From KnowBe4’s AI Agents Show Easier Administration and Lower Cyber Risk

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You often hear companies touting that they are AI enabled. But most do not give you the results of how that new AI stacks up with their previous non-AI offerings. We have some early data and want to share it. KnowBe4 was the first Human Risk Management (HRM) vendor to use AI. While our competitors have been touting the use of AI only since 2023 at the earliest, we have been using machine learning (ML), the backbone workhorse of AI, since early 2016 – for a decade! We were also the first HRM vendor to have multiple active AI agents in the market available for customers to use without requiring complicated hand-holding with customer support technicians. Today, we have over a dozen AI agents and more coming all the time. A few months ago, we launched KnowBe4’s Artificial Intelligence Defense Agents (AIDA), and specifically, the AIDA Orchestration (AO) agent . It allows admins to successfully manage human risk with the power and efficiency of AI. Customers can choose to allow AI ...

The Hacker News - ThreatsDay Bulletin: Defender 0-Day, SonicWall Brute-Force, 17-Year-Old Excel RCE and 15 More Stories

You know that feeling when you open your feed on a Thursday morning and it's just... a lot? Yeah. This week delivered. We've got hackers getting creative in ways that are almost impressive if you ignore the whole "crime" part, ancient vulnerabilities somehow still ruining people's days, and enough supply chain drama to fill a season of television nobody asked for. Not all bad though. Some  from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/threatsday-bulletin-17-year-old-excel.html

The Hacker News - [Webinar] Find and Eliminate Orphaned Non-Human Identities in Your Environment

In 2024, compromised service accounts and forgotten API keys were behind 68% of cloud breaches. Not phishing. Not weak passwords. Unmanaged non-human identities that nobody was watching. For every employee in your org, there are 40 to 50 automated credentials: service accounts, API tokens, AI agent connections, andOAuth grants. When projects end or employees leave, most from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/webinar-find-and-eliminate-orphaned-non.html

The Hacker News - Hidden Passenger? How Taboola Routes Logged-In Banking Sessions to Temu

A bank approved a Taboola pixel. That pixel quietly redirected logged-in users to a Temu tracking endpoint. This occurred without the bank’s knowledge, without user consent, and without a single security control registering a violation. Read the full technical breakdown in the Security Intelligence Brief. Download now → The "First-Hop Bias" Blind Spot Most& from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/hidden-passenger-how-taboola-routes.html

Schneier - Human Trust of AI Agents

Interesting research: “ Humans expect rationality and cooperation from LLM opponents in strategic games .” Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) integrate into our social and economic interactions, we need to deepen our understanding of how humans respond to LLMs opponents in strategic settings. We present the results of the first controlled monetarily-incentivised laboratory experiment looking at differences in human behaviour in a multi-player p-beauty contest against other humans and LLMs. We use a within-subject design in order to compare behaviour at the individual level. We show that, in this environment, human subjects choose significantly lower numbers when playing against LLMs than humans, which is mainly driven by the increased prevalence of ‘zero’ Nash-equilibrium choices. This shift is mainly driven by subjects with high strategic reasoning ability. Subjects who play the zero Nash-equilibrium choice motivate their strategy by appealing to perceived LLM’s reasoning ab...

The Hacker News - n8n Webhooks Abused Since October 2025 to Deliver Malware via Phishing Emails

Threat actors have been observed weaponizing n8n, a popular artificial intelligence (AI) workflow automation platform, to facilitate sophisticated phishing campaigns and deliver malicious payloads or fingerprint devices by sending automated emails. "By leveraging trusted infrastructure, these attackers bypass traditional security filters, turning productivity tools into delivery from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/n8n-webhooks-abused-since-october-2025.html