Russian military intelligence hacks thousands of consumer routers
Russian military intelligence hacked thousands of vulnerable consumer routers and used them in cyber-attacks. The attacks included the theft of Microsoft Office tokens. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre disclosed the activity on 7 April 2026.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Hacking & intrusion
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Thousands of consumer routers compromised
- Cause / method
- Hacking vulnerable routers for use in attacks and stealing Microsoft Office tokens
- Location
- Other countries
Timeline
- The UK's National Cyber Security Centre disclosed Russian military intelligence's hacking of vulnerable routers.
- The number of hacked consumer routers was reported to be in the thousands.
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