Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens

2026-04-12T01:23:37Z9a4cde54ed149484db3850e79cd99ed19a47b6edde70840bf362caf491c48e4c
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What happened

Multiple high-impact cyber incidents and trends: Russia-linked military intelligence operators 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. Separately, German authorities identified and doxxed Daniil Shchukin as the operator “UNKN” behind REvil/GandCrab; an Iran-targeted worm called CanisterWorm is spreading via weak cloud deployments and wiping systems with Iran/Farsi settings; and an Iran-linked group claimed a wiper attack against medical device firm Stryker. Law-enf/

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2026-04-12T01:23:37Z
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