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ThreatsDay Bulletin: Defender 0-Day, SonicWall Brute-Force, 17-Year-Old Excel RCE and 15 More Stories

ID: 3ef1d5e8-57b6-56b9-8e17-fc1c3c90273b

STIX ID: report--3ef1d5e8-57b6-56b9-8e17-fc1c3c90273b

Feed Name: The Hacker News

Threat Score
86/100

Date Published: 2026-04-16

Date Updated: 2026-04-24

Author: [email protected] (The Hacker News)

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**Weekly cybersecurity roundup:** The report summarizes numerous active threats and research: a targeted AI-enabled social-engineering wallet breach (UNC1069) stealing ~$100K from internal hot wallets; Microsoft Defender and other Defender-related zero-days/privilege-escalation exploits; CISA adding an old Excel RCE (CVE-2009-0238) to KEV; a WordPress plugin supply-chain backdoor affecting ~180k installs; a fake Ledger app on the Mac App Store that drained $9.5M from ~50 victims; APT41 deploying an undetectable ELF cloud credential harvester across multiple cloud providers; malvertising and SmokedHam campaigns leading to Qilin ransomware; and localized JanaWare ransomware attacks in Turkey—overall advising patching, dependency review, and stricter app scrutiny.

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