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UK warns of Chinese hackers using proxy networks to evade detection

April 26, 2026April 26, 2026 geekfeed0Tagged china, Cyberattack, Evasion, hackers, uk, United Kingdom

The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-UK) and international partners warned that China-nexus hackers are increasingly using large-scale proxy networks of hijacked consumer devices to evade detection and disguise their malicious activity. This joint advisory, co-signed by agencies from the United States, Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, and Sweden, says […]

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New GopherWhisper APT group abuses Outlook, Slack, Discord for comms

April 26, 2026April 26, 2026 geekfeed0Tagged APT, china, Cyber-espionage, Cyberespionage, Go, GopherWhisper, malware

A previously undocumented state-backed threat actor named GopherWhisper is using a Go-based custom toolkit and legitimate services like Microsoft 365 Outlook, Slack, and Discord in attacks against government entities. Active since at least 2023, the hackers have been linked to China and are estimated to have compromised dozens of victims. In a campaign identified by […]

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CISA orders feds to patch BlueHammer flaw exploited as zero-day

April 26, 2026April 26, 2026 geekfeed0Tagged Actively Exploited, BlueHammer, CISA, CVE-2026-33825, Elevation of Privileges, Microsoft Defender, Privilege Escalation, windows, Windows Defender

CISA has given U.S. government agencies two weeks to secure their Windows systems against a Microsoft Defender privilege escalation vulnerability that has been exploited in zero-day attacks. Tracked as CVE-2026-33825, this high-severity security flaw allows low-privileged local threat actors to gain SYSTEM permissions on unpatched devices by exploiting an insufficient granularity of access control weakness. Microsoft patched […]

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Apple fixes bug that let the FBI recover deleted Signal messages

April 26, 2026April 26, 2026 geekfeed0Tagged apple, CVE-2026-28950, ios, iphone, Notification, Security Update, Signal

Apple has released out-of-band security updates for iPhone and iPad devices to fix a Notification Services flaw that could allow notifications marked for deletion to remain stored on the device. The bug, tracked as CVE-2026-28950, was fixed on April 22, 2026, in iOS 26.4.2 and iPadOS 26.4.2 and in iOS 18.7.8 and iPadOS 18.7.8. “Notifications […]

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Spain dismantles major $4.7M manga piracy platform, arrests four

April 26, 2026April 26, 2026 geekfeed0Tagged Copyright, Manga, Piracy, police, Seizure, Spain, takedown

The Spanish police have dismantled what they claim is the largest Spanish-language manga piracy platform, operating since 2014 and serving millions of monthly users worldwide. Manga is the Japanese term for comics and graphic novels, typically referring to those created in Japan and widely read around the world. The manga piracy platform, which wasn’t named in […]

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New npm supply-chain attack self-spreads to steal auth tokens

April 25, 2026April 25, 2026 geekfeed0Tagged Info Stealer, Information Stealer, npm, Packages, supply chain, Supply Chain Attack, Worm

A new supply chain attack targeting the Node Package Manager (npm) ecosystem is stealing developer credentials and attempting to spread through packages published from compromised accounts. The threat was spotted by researchers at application security companies Socket and StepSecurity in multiple packages from Namastex Labs, a company that provides AI-based agentic solutions designed to improve […]

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Microsoft Teams to get efficiency mode on PCs with limited resources

April 25, 2026April 25, 2026 geekfeed0Tagged microsoft, Microsoft Teams, performance

Microsoft is preparing to roll out a new Efficiency Mode for Microsoft Teams for systems with limited CPU and memory resources to improve app responsiveness. As the company explained in a Tuesday message center update (MC1287373), this new performance-optimized experience will be enabled by default on eligible devices and will also improve meeting quality by […]

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Microsoft traces Universal Print issues to Graph API code change

April 25, 2026April 25, 2026 geekfeed0Tagged Coding, Known Issue, microsoft, Printing, Universal Print

Microsoft says that an ongoing Universal Print sharing issue that prevents users from creating some printer shares is due to a Microsoft Graph API code change. Universal Print is a cloud-based print solution designed to replace on-premises print server setups and provide Microsoft 365 customers with centralized print management capabilities. After confirming the issue (tracked under UP1287359) on […]

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New Mirai campaign exploits RCE flaw in EoL D-Link routers

April 25, 2026April 25, 2026 geekfeed0Tagged CVE-2025-29635, D-Link, ddos, hardware, malware, Mirai, router

A new Mirai-based malware campaign is actively exploiting CVE-2025-29635, a high-severity command-injection vulnerability affecting D-Link DIR-823X routers, to enlist devices into the botnet. CVE-2025-29635 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on remote devices by sending a POST request to a vulnerable endpoint, triggering remote command execution (RCE). Akamai’s SIRT, which detected the Mirai campaign in March […]

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Kyber ransomware gang toys with post-quantum encryption on Windows

April 25, 2026April 25, 2026 geekfeed0Tagged Kyber, Kyber Ransomware, Post-Quantum Cryptography, ransomware, vmware esxi

A new Kyber ransomware operation is targeting Windows systems and VMware ESXi endpoints in recent attacks, with one variant implementing Kyber1024 post-quantum encryption. Cybersecurity firm Rapid7 retrieved and analyzed two distinct Kyber variants in March 2026 during an incident response. Both variants were deployed on the same network, with one targeting VMware ESXi and the other […]

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