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Russian government hackers broke into thousands of home routers to steal passwords
The operation cut off GRU access to thousands of compromised routers and blocked more than 100 servers, officials said.
- Security researchers and government authorities warned on Tuesday that the Russian state-linked hacking group APT28, also known as Fancy Bear, has hijacked thousands of home and small business routers globally.
- The ongoing campaign uses compromised routers to redirect internet traffic to malicious servers, allowing the group to steal sensitive information such as user passwords and authentication tokens.
- APT28 is widely identified as a unit of Russia's GRU intelligence agency and has a history of major cyber operations, including the 2016 Democratic National Committee breach and the 2022 attack on satellite provider Viasat.
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The Russians hacked the Wi-Fi routers around the world.
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