Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens

2026-04-13T19:23:36Za7c0ce4cc982638d2f233a3444d1d049c476b385bbd3d9a576550adedb630213
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What happened

Multiple high-impact cyber incidents and trends were reported: Russian military-linked hackers exploited known vulnerabilities in legacy routers to mass-harvest Microsoft Office authentication tokens from users on >18,000 networks without deploying malware; German authorities identified and doxed “UNKN” (Daniil Shchukin), alleged leader of GandCrab and REvil; a worm named “CanisterWorm” is spreading via poorly secured cloud services and wiping data on systems set to Iran time/Farsi; the U.S., Canada and Germany disrupted four major IoT botnets (Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, Mossad) that had ensl‑

Why it matters

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Evidence and limitations

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2026-04-13T19:23:36Z
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