18 Apr, 2026

Microsoft April 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 167 flaws, 2 zero-days

Today is Microsoft’s April 2026 Patch Tuesday with security updates for 167 flaws, including 2 zero-day vulnerabilities. This Patch Tuesday also addresses eight “Critical” vulnerabilities, 7 of which are remote code execution flaws and the other is a denial of service flaw. The number of bugs in each vulnerability category is listed below: When GeekFeed reports on […]

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Microsoft releases Windows 10 KB5082200 extended security update

Microsoft has released the Windows 10 KB5082200 extended security update to fix the April 2026 Patch Tuesday vulnerabilities, including 2 zero-days. This update brings some interesting changes, including new Remote Desktop Protocol file phishing protections and new Windows Security indicators that provide the status of the rollout of new Secure Boot certificates. If you are running […]

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Critical flaw in wolfSSL library enables forged certificate use

A critical vulnerability in the wolfSSL SSL/TLS library can weaken security via improper verification of the hash algorithm or its size when checking Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) signatures. Researchers warn that an attacker could exploit the issue to force a target device or application to accept forged certificates for malicious servers or connections. […]

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Adobe rolls out emergency fix for Acrobat Reader zero-day flaw

Adobe has released an emergency security update for Acrobat Reader to fix a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-34621, that has been exploited in zero-day attacks since at least December. The flaw allows malicious PDF files to bypass sandbox restrictions and invoke privileged JavaScript APIs, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution. The exploit observed in attacks enables reading and stealing arbitrary files. No user […]

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Critical Marimo pre-auth RCE flaw now under active exploitation

Hackers started exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Marimo open-source reactive Python notebook platform just 10 hours after its public disclosure. The flaw allows remote code execution without authentication in Marimo versions 0.20.4 and earlier. It tracked as CVE-2026-39987 and GitHub assessed it with a critical score of 9.3 out of 10. According to researchers at cloud-security […]

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13-year-old bug in ActiveMQ lets hackers remotely execute commands

Security researchers discovered a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ Classic that has gone undetected for 13 years and could be exploited to execute arbitrary commands. The flaw was uncovered using the Claude AI assistant, which identified an exploit path by analyzing how independently developed components interact. Tracked as CVE-2026-34197, the security issue received […]

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Hackers exploit critical flaw in Ninja Forms WordPress plugin

A critical vulnerability in the Ninja Forms File Uploads premium add-on for WordPress allows uploading arbitrary files without authentication, which can lead to remote code execution. Identified as CVE-2026-0740, the issue is currently exploited in attacks. According to WordPress security company Defiant, its Wordfence firewall blocked more than 3,600 attacks over the past 24 hours. With over 600,000 downloads, […]

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Max severity Flowise RCE vulnerability now exploited in attacks

Hackers are exploiting a maximum-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-59528, in the open-source platform Flowise for building custom LLM apps and agentic systems to execute arbitrary code. The flaw allows injecting JavaScript code without any security checks and was publicly disclosed last September, with the warning that successful exploitation leads to command execution and file system […]

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Disgruntled researcher leaks “BlueHammer” Windows zero-day exploit

Exploit code has been released for an unpatched Windows privilege escalation flaw reported privately to Microsoft, allowing attackers to gain SYSTEM or elevated administrator permissions. Dubbed BlueHammer, the vulnerability was published by a security researcher discontent with how Microsoft’s Security Response Center (MSRC) handled the disclosure process. Since, the security issue has no official patch and there […]

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CISA orders feds to patch exploited Fortinet EMS flaw by Friday

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ordered federal agencies to secure FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS) instances against an actively exploited vulnerability by Friday. Tracked as CVE-2026-35616, this security flaw was discovered by cybersecurity firm Defused, which described it as a pre-authentication API access bypass that can allow attackers to bypass authentication and […]

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