{"id":14391,"date":"2026-05-03T07:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=14391"},"modified":"2026-05-03T07:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:45:10","slug":"this-month-in-safety-with-tony-anscombe-april-2026-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=14391","title":{"rendered":"This month in safety with Tony Anscombe \u2013 April 2026 version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sub-title\">Warnings about helpdesk impersonation scams and Iran-linked hackers focusing on important sectors within the US, plus essentially the most damaging scams of 2025 &#8211; this is a few of what made the headlines this month<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-authors d-flex flex-wrap\">\n<div class=\"article-author d-flex\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.welivesecurity.com\/en\/our-experts\/editor\/\" title=\"Editor\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/web-assets.esetstatic.com\/tn\/-x45\/wls\/2013\/12\/pen-tip-200.png\" media=\"(max-width: 768px)\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-image me-3\" src=\"https:\/\/web-assets.esetstatic.com\/tn\/-x45\/wls\/2013\/12\/pen-tip-200.png\" alt=\"Editor\"\/><\/picture><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"article-info mb-5\">\n        <span>30 Apr 2026<\/span>\n    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>With April coming to an in depth, it is time for ESET Chief Safety Evangelist <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.welivesecurity.com\/en\/our-experts\/tony-anscombe\/\">Tony Anscombe<\/a> to look again at a few of the high cybersecurity tales that made the information this month. Tony additionally provides insights that the they might maintain on your personal cyber-defenses. This is a few of what caught Tony&#8217;s consideration this month:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Microsoft has issued a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/microsoft-teams-increasingly-abused-in-helpdesk-impersonation-attacks\/\">warning<\/a> about helpdesk impersonation scams the place unhealthy actors more and more misuse exterior Microsoft Groups collaboration to trick customers into granting them distant entry.<\/li>\n<li>Iranian-linked hackers are focusing on Rockwell programmable logic controllers (PLCs), with virtually 4,000 such gadgets uncovered on the networks of U.S. important infrastructure organizations, in accordance with a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/nearly-4-000-us-industrial-devices-exposed-to-iranian-cyberattacks\/\">warning<\/a> from a number of U.S. federal businesses.<\/li>\n<li>The FBI&#8217;s Web Crime Criticism Heart (IC3) has <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/press-releases\/cryptocurrency-and-ai-scams-bilk-americans-of-billions\">issued<\/a> their annual report that discovered that U.S. victims misplaced almost $21 billion to cyber-enabled crimes final 12 months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What are some key mitigation steps vis-a-vis the assaults leveraging Groups? How can important infrastructure organizations utilizing Rockwell PLCs keep secure? How do the FBI&#8217;s figures examine to these from 2024 and what was essentially the most damaging rip-off to have an effect on companies final 12 months? Be taught this and extra from Tony&#8217;s video and make sure you take a look at the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.welivesecurity.com\/en\/videos\/month-security-tony-anscombe-march-2026\/\">March 2026 version<\/a> of Tony&#8217;s month-to-month safety information roundup for extra insights.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/0JPmVkxWjaQ\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warnings about helpdesk impersonation scams and Iran-linked hackers focusing on important sectors within the US, plus essentially the most damaging scams of 2025 &#8211; this is a few of what made the headlines this month 30 Apr 2026 With April coming to an in depth, it is time for ESET Chief Safety Evangelist Tony Anscombe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[1938,1038,406,1936,211,1937],"class_list":["post-14391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-anscombe","tag-april","tag-edition","tag-month","tag-security","tag-tony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14392,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14391\/revisions\/14392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- This website is optimized by Airlift. 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