{"id":8183,"date":"2026-04-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/2026\/04\/30\/this-month-in-security-with-tony-anscombe-april-2026-edition\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:00:00","slug":"this-month-in-security-with-tony-anscombe-april-2026-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/2026\/04\/30\/this-month-in-security-with-tony-anscombe-april-2026-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"This month in security with Tony Anscombe \u2013 April 2026 edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With April coming to a close, it&#8217;s time for ESET Chief Security Evangelist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welivesecurity.com\/our-experts\/tony-anscombe\/index.html\">Tony Anscombe<\/a> to look back at some of the top cybersecurity stories that made the news this month. Tony also offers insights that the they may hold for your own cyber-defenses. Here&#8217;s some of what caught Tony&#8217;s attention this month:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Microsoft has issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/microsoft-teams-increasingly-abused-in-helpdesk-impersonation-attacks\/\">warning<\/a> about helpdesk impersonation scams where bad actors increasingly misuse external Microsoft Teams collaboration to trick users into granting them remote access.<\/li>\n<li>Iranian-linked hackers are targeting Rockwell programmable logic controllers (PLCs), with almost 4,000 such devices exposed on the networks of U.S. critical infrastructure organizations, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/nearly-4-000-us-industrial-devices-exposed-to-iranian-cyberattacks\/\">warning<\/a> from multiple U.S. federal agencies.<\/li>\n<li>The FBI&#8217;s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/press-releases\/cryptocurrency-and-ai-scams-bilk-americans-of-billions\">issued<\/a> their annual report that found that U.S. victims lost nearly $21 billion to cyber-enabled crimes last year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What are some key mitigation steps vis-a-vis the attacks leveraging Teams? How can critical infrastructure organizations using Rockwell PLCs stay safe? How do the FBI&#8217;s figures compare to those from 2024 and what was the most damaging scam to affect businesses last year? Learn this and more from Tony&#8217;s video and be sure to check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welivesecurity.com\/month-security-tony-anscombe-march-2026\/index.html\">March 2026 edition<\/a> of Tony&#8217;s monthly security news roundup for more insights.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"wls-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.welivesecurity.com\/en\/videos\/month-security-tony-anscombe-april-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full analysis on WeLiveSecurity \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warnings about helpdesk impersonation scams and Iran-linked hackers targeting critical sectors in the US, plus the most damaging scams of 2025 &#8211; here&#8217;s some of what made the headlines this month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2914],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media"],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}