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Microsoft Confirms Reboot Loops on Windows Server 2025 After April Patch KB5082063

Microsoft has confirmed a critical stability problem affecting some Windows Server 2025 domain controllers following the April 2026 cumulative update (KB5082063). Administrators around the world reported domain controllers entering repeated reboot cycles after installing the update released on April 14, 2026, and Microsoft’s release notes were updated to acknowledge the issue and a related installation failure affecting a subset of systems. What happened Microsoft shipped KB5082063 (OS Build 26100.32690) as…

Saugata DattaApr 17, 20263 min read269

Cybersecurity

How the Windows Snipping Tool’s CVE-2026-33829 Opens the Door to NTLM Hash Theft

Microsoft patched a moderate-severity flaw in the Windows Snipping Tool in the April 14, 2026 security updates that could let attackers trick the application into leaking authentication material. Tracked as CVE-2026-33829 and reported by Blackarrow (Tarlogic), the issue stems from how Snipping Tool handles certain deep links and can result in an authenticated Server Message Block (SMB) connection to an attacker-controlled server, exposing NTLMv2 hashes. What the vulnerability is CVE-2026-33829…

Saugata DattaApr 17, 20263 min read374

Microsoft

Windows Secure Boot: A practical playbook for certificates expiring in 2026

Microsoft’s Secure Boot certificates issued in 2011 are approaching their expiration window in 2026. While affected devices will continue to boot and receive regular Windows updates, they will stop receiving new protections for the pre-boot environment — updates to Windows Boot Manager, Secure Boot DB/DBX revocations, and mitigations for newly discovered boot-level vulnerabilities. Many newer PCs already include the 2023 certificates, but organizations should act now to inventory, monitor, pilot,…

Saugata DattaApr 17, 20265 min read243

Artificial intelligence

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 Arrives in Amazon Bedrock — Smarter Coding, Vision, and 1M-Token Context

Amazon Bedrock now offers Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, a major upgrade aimed at production-grade workflows that demand stronger reasoning, longer context windows, and more reliable scaling. Opus 4.7 builds on the Opus family’s strengths and targets real-world use cases such as agentic coding, multi-step knowledge work, long-running tasks, and high-resolution visual understanding. Running on Bedrock’s next-generation inference engine, the model is positioned for enterprise deployments where performance, privacy, and availability…

Saugata DattaApr 16, 20263 min read428

Artificial intelligence

Claude Opus 4.7: Anthropic’s Sharper, More Reliable Coding and Multimodal Model

Anthropic’s newest release, Claude Opus 4.7, is now generally available. Built as an incremental but meaningful upgrade over Opus 4.6, Opus 4.7 is positioned as a model that improves sustained reasoning, long-running workflows, and high-resolution vision. Anthropic emphasizes that while Opus 4.7 is not as broadly capable as their most advanced Mythos Preview model, it brings tangible gains for software engineering, multimodal tasks, and enterprise agent orchestration, and it will…

Saugata DattaApr 16, 20264 min read409

Artificial intelligence

OpenAI’s GPT-5.4-Cyber: a practical boost for defenders — and a new risk calculus

OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.4-Cyber, a purpose-built variant of GPT-5.4 tuned to assist vetted security professionals with tasks previously reserved for specialized analysts. Rather than a general consumer release, this model is designed to lower refusal rates for legitimate cybersecurity workflows: binary reverse engineering, vulnerability scanning, malware analysis and exploit research. The announcement frames the model as a defensive accelerant — a tool to help defenders inspect compiled software and evaluate…

Saugata DattaApr 15, 20264 min read261

Cybersecurity

Microsoft Patch Tuesday — April 2026: 168 Vulnerabilities Fixed, Including an Actively Exploited SharePoint Zero-Day

Microsoft’s April 2026 Patch Tuesday delivers a heavy set of fixes: 168 vulnerabilities across Windows, Office, Azure components and developer tools. The release includes one confirmed actively exploited zero-day in SharePoint Server (CVE-2026-32201) and a publicly disclosed elevation-of-privilege flaw in Microsoft Defender (CVE-2026-33825). Beyond those high-visibility issues, eight vulnerabilities are rated Critical — most of them Remote Code Execution (RCE) flaws — and dozens more allow elevation of privilege, information…

Saugata DattaApr 15, 20266 min read278

Artificial intelligence

Google brings “Skills” to Chrome so Gemini prompts are instantly reusable

Chrome is getting another nudge toward becoming the home for Google’s AI toolbox. This spring Google introduced “Skills,” a way to save Gemini prompts inside the browser so common queries and workflows can be retriggered with a click. Rather than retyping or copy‑pasting a prompt each time you want Gemini to perform a task, Skills let you store and reuse those instructions across tabs and devices, speeding up repeatable tasks…

Saugata DattaApr 15, 20264 min read373

Cybersecurity

Synology SSL VPN Client Flaws Let Remote Attackers Read Files and Expose PINs — Patch Now

Synology has released a security advisory addressing two important vulnerabilities in its SSL VPN Client that could allow remote attackers to access sensitive files and expose locally stored PINs. Both flaws require user interaction—specifically, visiting a crafted web page while the vulnerable client is running—but their consequences range from quietly reading configuration files and certificates to enabling interception of VPN traffic by abusing exposed credentials. Administrators and users should prioritize…

Saugata DattaApr 14, 20263 min read250

Cybersecurity

Micropatches for Windows Shell Bypass (CVE-2026-21510): What 0patch Fixed and Why It Matters

Microsoft released fixes earlier this year for CVE-2026-21510, a security feature bypass in Windows Explorer that let specially crafted shortcut (LNK) files execute a remotely hosted DLL without the usual security warning. Researchers observed exploitation in the wild and uploaded a sample to malware repositories, enabling vendors and defenders to reproduce the issue and protect legacy systems that no longer receive timely official updates. This post explains how the vulnerability…

Saugata DattaApr 14, 20264 min read305

Artificial intelligence

OpenAI Acquires Hiro Finance to Bolster AI Financial Planning

OpenAI has officially confirmed the acquisition of Hiro Finance, an AI-powered personal finance startup founded by serial entrepreneur Ethan Bloch. The deal, which follows Hiro’s recent launch of a specialized financial modeling tool, marks a strategic move by OpenAI to deepen its expertise in high-stakes mathematical accuracy and consumer fintech. Backed by heavyweights like Ribbit Capital and General Catalyst, Hiro had carved out a niche by training models specifically for…

Saugata DattaApr 14, 20262 min read254

Cybersecurity

How a Flippa Purchase Turned 30+ “Essential Plugin” WordPress Plugins into Backdoor Bait

Last week I encountered a supply-chain incident that felt eerily familiar but much larger in scale. A client’s dashboard had started showing a warning from the WordPress.org Plugins Team about a plugin serving code that could permit unauthorized access. A deeper dive revealed an attacker had quietly weaponized an entire portfolio of plugins—planting a backdoor that lay dormant for months before being activated to serve cloaked SEO spam and redirects.…

Saugata DattaApr 14, 20266 min read370

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