{"id":40089,"date":"2026-04-17T10:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=40089"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:17:08","slug":"remote-desktop-phishing-protection-in-the-april-2026-update-causes-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2026\/04\/17\/remote-desktop-phishing-protection-in-the-april-2026-update-causes-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote Desktop Phishing Protection in the April 2026 Update Causes Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; float: left;\" title=\"Windows\" src=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Windows-klein.jpg\" alt=\"Windows\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" \/>[<a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/16\/remote-desktop-phishing-schutz-im-april-2026-update-verursacht-verwirrung\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German<\/a>]On April 14, 2026 (Patch Day), Microsoft released a fix for Remote Desktop to protect RDP connections against phishing attacks. Users now see a warning message when establishing an RDP connection. This has caused a lot of confusion and issues. I've written a follow-up article providing an overview of the situation, including workarounds. And there are many user comments outlining more insights. Details may be read at my German <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/16\/remote-desktop-phishing-schutz-im-april-2026-update-verursacht-verwirrung\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a> [use the build-in translator to switch the language].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]On April 14, 2026 (Patch Day), Microsoft released a fix for Remote Desktop to protect RDP connections against phishing attacks. Users now see a warning message when establishing an RDP connection. This has caused a lot of confusion and issues. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2026\/04\/17\/remote-desktop-phishing-protection-in-the-april-2026-update-causes-confusion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,580,22,2],"tags":[2996,2900,69,195,194],"class_list":["post-40089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue","category-security","category-update","category-windows","tag-patchday-4-2026","tag-remote-desktop","tag-security","tag-update","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40091,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40089\/revisions\/40091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}