Apache ActiveMQ Exploit, DDoS Empire Busted, 8.3B Bad Ads Blocked and More

THN Daily Updates Webinar ➞ Mythos Madness and What It Means for AppSec Explore 2026 AI security risks as autonomous agents act on production data. Learn emerging attack surfaces, runtime threats, and controls to stop rogue AI before systems and data are exposed. Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Apr 17, 2026 Google Blocks 8.3B Policy-Violating Ads in 2025, Launches Android 17 Privacy Overhaul Google this week announced a new set of Play policy updates to strengthen user privacy and protect businesses against fraud, even as it revealed it blocked or removed over 8.3 billion ads globally and suspended 24.9 mil... Read More NIST Limits CVE Enrichment After 263% Surge in Vulnerability Submissions 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 ... Read More Understand How Attackers Operate. SEC560 Enterprise Pentesting, D.C. Mimikatz, Impacket, DCSync, golden tickets—hands-on tools in real scenarios. SANSFIRE, July 13–18. Read More Operation PowerOFF Seizes 53 DDoS Domains, Exposes 3 Million Criminal Accounts 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 cybercrimina... Read More Apache ActiveMQ CVE-2026-34197 Added to CISA KEV Amid Active Exploitation 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, th... Read More Newly Discovered PowMix Botnet Hits Czech Workers Using Randomized C2 Traffic 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. "Pow... Read More ThreatsDay Bulletin: Defender 0-Day, SonicWall Brute-Force, 17-Year-Old Excel RCE and 15 More Stories 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 ... Read More [Webinar] Find and Eliminate Orphaned Non-Human Identities in Your Environment In 2024, compromised service accounts and forgotten API keys were behind 68% of cloud breaches. Not phishing. Not weak passwords. Unmanaged non-human identities that nobody was watching. For every employe... Read More Webinar ➞ Mythos Madness and What It Means for AppSec Explore 2026 AI security risks as autonomous agents act on production data. Learn emerging attack surfaces, runtime threats, and controls to stop rogue AI before systems and data are exposed. Download Now Sponsored This email was sent to sikubaycom.s3cr3tz@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from THN. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please click here. Contact THN: info@thehackernews.com Unsubscribe THN | K.P BLock, Pitampura, Delhi