Strengthening authentication with passkeys: A CISO playbook

2026-04-24T08:51:35Zb9e38be00e2e8d3e2029e2e5933ab263af0b5a75e856d959a67e0167339471d7
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What happened

Sophos published multiple security updates and research in April 2026: a Threat Research write-up showing attackers abusing hidden QEMU virtual machines to evade detection and deploy PayoutsKing ransomware (linked to activity clusters named GOLD ENCOUNTER and CitrixBleed2); an advisory that an Adobe Reader zero‑day is in active exploitation; coverage of Microsoft April Patch Tuesday addressing 163 CVEs across 88 advisories; and thematic posts on an accelerating ‘vulnerability flood’ driven by AI discovery, passkey rollout guidance for CISOs, a new Sophos Firewall v22 MR1 release, and an OpenCl

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