Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens
2026-04-08T13:23:30Z•ab6dbeb89cdea00549645802e9689493bed1d0ea9989d08afefd57a8c75a6b9b
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What happened
Multiple KrebsOnSecurity reports describe a wave of high-impact cyber activity: Russian military-linked actors exploited known vulnerabilities in older Internet routers to mass-harvest Microsoft Office authentication tokens from over 18,000 networks without deploying malware; large IoT botnets (Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, Mossad) that compromised millions of devices were disrupted by law enforcement; a stealthy phishing-as-a-service (“Starkiller”) proxies real login pages and relays credentials and MFA codes; wiper campaigns (including ‘CanisterWorm’ and a claimed attack on Stryker) are active,
Why it matters
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Evidence and limitations
- Source ID
- krebs_on_security
- Record identifier
- ab6dbeb89cdea00549645802e9689493bed1d0ea9989d08afefd57a8c75a6b9b
- Enrichment time
- 2026-04-08T13:23:30Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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