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April 2026

NIST Limits CVE Enrichment After 263% Surge in Vulnerability Submissions

NIST Limits CVE Enrichment After 263% Surge in Vulnerability Submissions

Ravie LakshmananApr 17, 2026Vulnerability Management The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced changes to the way it handles cybersecurity vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) listed in its National Vulnerability Database (NVD), stating it… 

Operation PowerOFF Seizes 53 DDoS Domains, Exposes 3 Million Criminal Accounts

Operation PowerOFF Seizes 53 DDoS Domains, Exposes 3 Million Criminal Accounts

Ravie LakshmananApr 17, 2026DDoS / Cybercrime An international law enforcement operation has taken down 53 domains and arrested four people in connection with commercial distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) operations that were used by more than 75,000… 

Apache ActiveMQ CVE-2026-34197 Added to CISA KEV Amid Active Exploitation

Apache ActiveMQ CVE-2026-34197 Added to CISA KEV Amid Active Exploitation

Ravie LakshmananApr 17, 2026Vulnerability / Enterprise Security 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,… 

Newly Discovered PowMix Botnet Hits Czech Workers Using Randomized C2 Traffic

Newly Discovered PowMix Botnet Hits Czech Workers Using Randomized C2 Traffic

Ravie LakshmananApr 16, 2026Botnet / Cryptomining 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…