Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens
2026-04-08T07:23:31Z•4ffe0e49095cabc981d566ccd9b47b49bd1639c801055c140828026e1e1c28f1
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What happened
Multiple KrebsOnSecurity posts describe a range of high-impact cyber activity: Russian military-linked actors exploited known flaws in older Internet routers to mass-harvest Microsoft Office authentication tokens from users on more than 18,000 networks without deploying malware; a new phishing‑as‑a‑service called “Starkiller” proxies real login pages and relays MFA codes to defeat multi‑factor protections; massive IoT botnets (Kimwolf, Aisuru, JackSkid and Mossad) comprising millions of compromised devices were disrupted by law enforcement after being used for record DDoS attacks and for evict
Why it matters
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Evidence and limitations
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- krebs_on_security
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- 4ffe0e49095cabc981d566ccd9b47b49bd1639c801055c140828026e1e1c28f1
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- 2026-04-08T07:23:31Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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