Russia's Forest Blizzard Nabs Rafts of Logins Via SOHO Routers
2026-04-09T02:51:45Z•22ae78d38425fc112c3b526b81fbdabcd15518138a7cdf8a1bdb456b4dad54fc
AI-assisted attacksAPT28CVE-2026-35616Casbaneiro banking trojanDNS manipulationFortinetGrafanaHackerOne pauseIranian threat actorsMaaSMedusa ransomwareNPM/AxiosOT/PLCOWASP GenAIReact2ShellSOHO routersStorm-1175Venom StealerVertex AI over-privilegebug-bounty remediationcredential harvestingmobile fraud Latin Americarouter compromisesupply chainzero-day
What happened
DarkReading roundup (early Apr 2026) covering multiple active and emerging threats: APT28’s “malwareless” espionage campaign that hijacks SOHO routers by changing DNS settings; an emergency Fortinet FortiClient zero-day (CVE-2026-35616) and other in-the-wild exploits; Storm-1175’s rapid Medusa ransomware campaigns leveraging N-day/zero-day flaws; Iranian actors disrupting U.S. critical infrastructure via exposed PLCs; automated credential-harvesting attacks exploiting Next.js/React2Shell exposures; supply-chain compromises including the Axios NPM incident and AI-assisted GitHub targeting; a GP
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