Österlicher Zertifikats-GAU bei D-Trust: Zehntausende Zertifikate ungültig (2026-04-17 05:30 UTC)
Kurz: Zwischen Gründonnerstag und Ostermontag mussten Admins ihre TLS-Zertifikate austauschen. Nun gibt D-Trust bekannt: Fast 60.000 waren nicht regelkonform.
Auslegungssache 157: Datenschutz vor Gericht (2026-04-17 04:10 UTC)
Kurz: Im c’t-Datenschutz-Podcast erklärt Niedersachsens Datenschutzbeauftragter, wie Widerspruchsverfahren gegen Bußgelder ablaufen – und warum er außen vor bleibt.
Kurz: The latest wave of “Operation PowerOFF,” on April 13, 2026, targeted the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) ecosystem and its users across 21 countries. […]
ZionSiphon malware designed to sabotage water treatment systems (2026-04-16 22:04 UTC)
Kurz: A new malware called ZionSiphon, specifically designed for operational technology, is targeting water treatment and desalination environments to sabotage their operations. […]
New Microsoft Defender “RedSun” zero-day PoC grants SYSTEM privileges (2026-04-16 20:19 UTC)
Kurz: A researcher known as “Chaotic Eclipse” has published a proof-of-concept exploit for a second Microsoft Defender zero-day, dubbed “RedSun,” in the past two weeks, protesting how the company works with cybersecurity researchers. […]
Apache ActiveMQ CVE-2026-34197 Added to CISA KEV Amid Active Exploitation (2026-04-17 03:22 UTC)
Kurz: A recently disclosed high-severity security flaw in Apache ActiveMQ Classic has come under active exploitation in the wild, per the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). To that end, the agency has added the vulnerab…
Kurz: 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-…
ThreatsDay Bulletin: Defender 0-Day, SonicWall Brute-Force, 17-Year-Old Excel RCE and 15 More Stories (2026-04-16 13:05 UTC)
Kurz: 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 vulne…