Russian military intelligence hacks thousands of consumer routers
Russian military intelligence hacked thousands of vulnerable consumer routers and used them in cyberattacks. The attacks included the theft of Microsoft Office tokens. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre disclosed the activity on April 7, 2026.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- 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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