Tekin Night April 18 Autopsy: From the massive DDoS attack crippling Bluesky to a critical 13-year-old ActiveMQ bug, and how hackers are using QEMU to bypass Windows security systems.
🌙 Welcome to Tekin Night April 18, 2026 Good evening, tech enthusiasts! Tonight we bring you 6 hot and critical stories from the technology world. From sophisticated DDoS attacks on Bluesky to the discovery
of a 13-year-old vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ, from hackers' new techniques to evade Windows security to ransomware threats against major brands - it's all here. ⚡ Tonight's Headlines: 🔵 Sophisticated
DDoS Attack on Bluesky: Social Network Under Pressure 🚨 13-Year-Old Apache ActiveMQ Vulnerability on CISA List 💻 Hackers Evading Windows Security with QEMU 💰 ShinyHunters Threatens Three Major Brands
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🔵 Bluesky Under Sophisticated DDoS Attack: Social Network Under Pressure Bluesky, the decentralized social network known as an alternative to Twitter (X), has been under a severe and sophisticated DDoS
(Distributed Denial of Service) attack since Thursday, April 17. According to the Bluesky team, this "sophisticated" and "coordinated" attack has caused intermittent outages across various platform services.
📊 Attack Details Start Time Thursday, April 17, 1:42 AM ET Duration Over 24 hours (ongoing at time of writing) Affected Services Feed, Notifications, Threads, Search Attack Type Sophisticated and Coordinated
DDoS User Data Status ✅ No evidence of unauthorized access to private data DDoS attacks typically flood target servers with massive amounts of fake traffic, overwhelming them and disrupting access for
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