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Wednesday, April 8, 2026
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📰 Cybersecurity News Headlines

Top stories from leading cybersecurity publications as of April 8, 2026.

  1. Hackers exploit critical flaw in Ninja Forms WordPress plugin
    — Bleeping Computer

    A critical vulnerability in the Ninja Forms File Uploads premium add-on for WordPress allows uploading arbitrary files without authenticatio…
  2. FBI: Americans lost a record $21 billion to cybercrime last year
    — Bleeping Computer

    U.S. victims lost nearly $21 billion to cyber-enabled crimes last year, driven primarily by investment scams, business email compromise, tec…
  3. Storm-1175 Deploys Medusa Ransomware at 'High Velocity'
    — Dark Reading

    Microsoft says the financially motivated cybercrime group has exploited N-day and zero-day vulnerabilities in campaigns predicated on speed.
  4. Grafana Patches AI Bug That Could Have Leaked User Data
    — Dark Reading

    By hiding malicious instructions on an attacker-controlled Web page, AI could ingest orders as benign and return sensitive data to the attac…
  5. Snowflake customers hit in data theft attacks after SaaS integrator breach
    — Bleeping Computer

    Over a dozen companies have suffered data theft attacks after a SaaS integration provider was breached and authentication tokens stolen. [.…
  6. A Little Bit Pivoting: What Web Shells are Attackers Looking for?, (Tue, Apr 7th)
    — SANS ISC

    Webshells remain a popular method for attackers to maintain persistence on a compromised web server. Many "arbitrary file write" and "remote…
  7. US warns of Iranian hackers targeting critical infrastructure
    — Bleeping Computer

    Iranian-linked hackers are targeting Internet-exposed Rockwell/Allen-Bradley programmable logic controllers (PLCs) on the networks of U.S. c…
  8. Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens
    — Krebs on Security

    Hackers linked to Russia's military intelligence units are using known flaws in older Internet routers to mass harvest authentication tokens…
  9. Russian State-Linked APT28 Exploits SOHO Routers in Global DNS Hijacking Campaign
    — The Hacker News

    The Russia-linked threat actor known as APT28 (aka Forest Blizzard) has been linked to a new campaign that has compromised insecure MikroTi…
  10. [Webinar] How to Close Identity Gaps in 2026 Before AI Exploits Enterprise Risk
    — The Hacker News

    In the rapid evolution of the 2026 threat landscape, a frustrating paradox has emerged for CISOs and security leaders: Identity programs …
  11. Docker CVE-2026-34040 Lets Attackers Bypass Authorization and Gain Host Access
    — The Hacker News

    A high-severity security vulnerability has been disclosed in Docker Engine that could permit an attacker to bypass authorization plugins (A…
  12. RSAC 2026: How AI Is Reshaping Cybersecurity Faster Than Ever
    — Dark Reading

    Dark Reading's Kelly Jackson Higgins shares insights on the past, present, and future of cybersecurity after attending RSAC 2026 Conference.

Generated by HiveNet.ai Threat Intelligence Platform · April 8, 2026 · Sources: The Hacker News, Bleeping Computer, Krebs on Security, Dark Reading, SANS ISC