Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens

2026-04-12T13:23:32Z2b8653d21c2746585037de614c8819c68c411be6028ed02d2debcbf6e796fc3d
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What happened

A series of KrebsOnSecurity reports detail multiple high-impact incidents: Russia-linked actors exploited known flaws in older routers to mass-harvest Microsoft Office authentication tokens from over 18,000 networks without deploying malware; a new phishing-as-a-service named “Starkiller” proxies real login pages to capture credentials and MFA codes; the massive Kimwolf and other IoT botnets disrupted services (including I2P) and were the subject of international enforcement actions dismantling botnet infrastructure; the CanisterWorm wiper spreads via insecure cloud services and targets hosts/

Why it matters

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2026-04-12T13:23:32Z
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