Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens
2026-04-11T07:23:35Z•875220601d37c8501225a03093099f7de8965b09bcea1a93d83bf3f2680dba74
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What happened
Multiple high-impact cyber incidents and trends: Russia-linked operators exploited known flaws in legacy consumer/enterprise routers to mass-harvest Microsoft Office authentication tokens from >18,000 networks without deploying malware; German authorities identified the alleged leader of historic Russian ransomware gangs REvil/GandCrab; a financially motivated actor deployed 'CanisterWorm', a worm-style wiper spreading via poorly secured cloud services and targeting systems using Iran time zone or Farsi locale; U.S., Canadian and German authorities disrupted four large IoT botnets (Aisuru, Kim
Why it matters
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Evidence and limitations
- Source ID
- krebs_on_security
- Record identifier
- 875220601d37c8501225a03093099f7de8965b09bcea1a93d83bf3f2680dba74
- Enrichment time
- 2026-04-11T07:23:35Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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