Operation PowerOFF Seizes 53 DDoS Domains, Exposes 3 Million Criminal Accounts
2026-04-17T07:24:08Z•b40bae36caee8eb9afc3b39be91c577304df06cafa437d078cd58aa5266e7513
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What happened
This collection of The Hacker News stories highlights multiple high-impact active threats and widespread patching activity. Key developments: Operation PowerOFF dismantled 53 DDoS-for-hire domains and arrested operators; CISA added Apache ActiveMQ Classic vulnerability CVE-2026-34197 to its KEV due to active exploitation; a critical nginx-ui authentication-bypass (CVE-2026-33032) is being actively exploited enabling full Nginx takeover; Cisco and Microsoft released updates for multiple critical flaws (including Cisco CVE-2026-20184 and several Microsoft Patch Tuesday fixes); ShowDoc RCE (CVE-2
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