IT Security Weekend Catch Up – April 17, 2026

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17.04.2026 | 22:00

IT Security Weekend Catch Up – April 17, 2026
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IT Security Weekend Catch Up – April 17, 2026

Afraid of missing important security news during the week? We're here to help! Every week we put together a curated list of all important security news in one place, for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!

For the less technical

  1. [VIDEO] Conti: Inside the billion dollar hacking empire
  2. Stolen Rockstar Games analytics data leaked by extortion gang
  3. Booking.com warns reservation data may have checked out with intruders
  4. FBI takedown of W3LL phishing service leads to developer arrest
  5. Europol-supported global operation targets over 75 000 users engaged in DDoS attacks
  6. Russia-linked hackers compromised scores of Ukrainian prosecutors’ email accounts, data shows
  7. How the Kremlin turned a MAGA influencer trip into an influence operation
  8. Pushpaganda manipulates Google Discovery feeds with AI-generated content to spread malicious notifications
  9. News outlets are blocking Wayback Machine from archiving their pages — 23 outlets concerned AI companies might abuse fair use and use it to train their models

For the more technical

  1. April 2026 Patch Tuesday: Two zero-days and eight critical vulnerabilities among 164 CVEs
  2. A 32-year-old bug walks into a Telnet server (GNU inetutils Telnetd CVE-2026-32746 Pre-Auth RCE)
  3. 10 minutes with Claude: Remote Code Execution in Apache ActiveMQ (CVE-2026-34197)
  4. MCPwn: A CVSS 9.8 one-Line MCP bug that hands over your Nginx to anyone on the network – actively exploited in the wild
  5. Protecting cookies with Device Bound Session Credentials
  6. 108 Chrome extensions linked to data exfiltration and session theft via shared C2 infrastructure
  7. Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them
  8. The most commonly used domain extensions for fraud in 2025
  9. Fake Claude site installs malware that gives attackers access to your computer
  10. HasAIbeenPwned - security incidents affecting major AI models
  11. Inside Predator's kernel engine
  12. Uncovering Webloc. An analysis of Penlink’s ad-based geolocation surveillance tech
  13. Orbán’s spying kit revealed: Israeli surveillance tool combined with Hungarian technology
  14. APT37’s pretexting-based targeted intrusion: Analysis of Facebook reconnaissance and software tampering attacks
  15. Masjesu rising: The commercial IoT botnet built for stealth, DDoS, and IoT evasion
  16. Exposing Russian malicious infrastructure: 1,250+ C2 servers mapped across 165 providers
  17. Inside ZionSiphon: Analysis of OT malware targeting Israeli water systems
  18. Dissecting Sapphire Sleet’s macOS intrusion from lure to compromise

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Afraid of missing important security news during the week? We’re here to help! Every week we put together a curated list of all important security news in one place, for your reading pleasure. Enjoy! 2026-04-17T22:00:00+02:00

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