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The Hacker News - Three Microsoft Defender Zero-Days Actively Exploited; Two Still Unpatched

Huntress is warning that threat actors are exploiting three recently disclosed security flaws in Microsoft Defender to gain elevated privileges in compromised systems. The activity involves the exploitation of three vulnerabilities that are codenamed BlueHammer (requires GitHub sign-in), RedSun, and UnDefend, all of which were released as zero-days by a researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse ( from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/three-microsoft-defender-zero-days.html

KnowBe4 - Identity at the Edge: How the Sixth Annual Identity Management Day Highlights the New Frontiers of Trust

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Each year, Identity Management Day (IMD) serves as a global reminder that managing digital identities is more than a technical requirement; it is a cornerstone of modern trust. Now in its sixth year, IMD continues to emphasize how identity itself is evolving, stretching beyond human users to encompass machines, automated agents, and even AI-generated personas. from Human Risk Management Blog https://blog.knowbe4.com/identity-at-the-edge-how-the-sixth-annual-identity-management-day-highlights-the-new-frontiers-of-trust

The Hacker News - Google Blocks 8.3B Policy-Violating Ads in 2025, Launches Android 17 Privacy Overhaul

Google this week announced a new set of Play policy updates to strengthen user privacy and protect businesses against fraud, even as it revealed it blocked or removed over 8.3 billion ads globally and suspended 24.9 million accounts in 2025. The new policy updates relate to contact and location permissions in Android, allowing third-party apps to access the contact lists and a user's location in from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/google-blocks-83b-policy-violating-ads.html

Schneier - Mythos and Cybersecurity

Last week, Anthropic pulled back the curtain on Claude Mythos Preview , an AI model so capable at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities that the company decided it was too dangerous to release to the public. Instead, access has been restricted to roughly 50 organizations—Microsoft, Apple, Amazon Web Services, CrowdStrike and other vendors of critical infrastructure—under an initiative called Project Glasswing . The announcement was accompanied by a barrage of hair-raising anecdotes: thousands of vulnerabilities uncovered across every major operating system and browser, including a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD, a 16-year-old flaw in FFmpeg. Mythos was able to weaponize a set of vulnerabilities it found in the Firefox browser into 181 usable attacks; Anthropic’s previous flagship model could only achieve two. This is, in many respects, exactly the kind of responsible disclosure that security researchers have long urged. And yet the public has been given remarkably little wi...

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 ...