Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)
Generated: 2026-04-28 03:00 PDT
- Microsoft: New Remote Desktop warnings may display incorrectly
BleepingComputer • 2026-04-28 02:51 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
Microsoft has confirmed a new issue causing newly introduced Windows security warnings to display incorrectly when opening Remote Desktop (.rdp) files. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-new-remote-desktop-warnings-may-display-incorrectly/ - French police arrest 21-year-old “HexDex” hacker over 100 alleged data breaches
Graham Cluley • 2026-04-28 01:43 • www.bitdefender.com
A 21-year-old man suspected of conducting approximately 100 data breaches since late 2025 – including a hack of the French Ministry of National Education that exposed records on almost a quarter of a million employees – has been arrested at his home in western France.Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/french-police-arrest-hexdex-hacker - Microsoft asks iPhone users to reauthenticate after Outlook outage
BleepingComputer • 2026-04-28 01:37 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
After addressing a widespread outage that affected Outlook.com users worldwide on Monday, Microsoft has asked iPhone users to re-enter their credentials to regain access to their Outlook and Hotmail accounts via the default Mail app. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-asks-iphone-users-to-re-enter-credentials-after-outlook-outage/ - Chinese Silk Typhoon Hacker Extradited to U.S. Over COVID Research Cyberattacks
The Hacker News • 2026-04-28 00:57 • thehackernews.com
A Chinese national accused of being a member of the Silk Typhoon hacking group has been extradited to the U.S. from Italy.
Xu Zewei, 34, was arrested in July 2025 by Italian authorities for his alleged links to the Chinese state-sponsored threat group and for orchestrating cyber attacks against American organizations and government agencies between February 2020 and June 2021, including
https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/chinese-silk-typhoon-hacker-extradited.html - Microsoft Patches Entra ID Role Flaw That Enabled Service Principal Takeover
The Hacker News • 2026-04-27 23:37 • thehackernews.com
An administrative role meant for artificial intelligence (AI) agents within Microsoft Entra ID could enable privilege escalation and identity takeover attacks, according to new findings from Silverfort.
Agent ID Administrator is a privileged built-in role introduced by Microsoft as part of its agent identity platform to handle all aspects of an AI agent’s identity lifecycle operations in a
https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/microsoft-patches-entra-id-role-flaw.html - Microsoft Confirms Active Exploitation of Windows Shell CVE-2026-32202
The Hacker News • 2026-04-27 22:50 • thehackernews.com
Microsoft on Monday revised its advisory for a now-patched, high-severity security flaw impacting Windows Shell to acknowledge that it has been actively exploited in the wild.
The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-32202 (CVSS score: 4.3), a spoofing vulnerability that could allow an attacker to access sensitive information. It was addressed as part of its Patch Tuesday update for this
https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/microsoft-confirms-active-exploitation.html - Weekly Update 501
Troy Hunt • 2026-04-27 22:01 • www.troyhunt.comThis is so "peak 2026" – writing an equality policy to ensure people treat our AI bot with the same respect as they do their human counterparts. It's intentionally a bit tongue-in-cheek, but it's there for a purpose: we simply don't have
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
