Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens
2026-04-10T01:23:26Z•d1dea585171d1c826cef7a8d7ab17618405f544e4ab2a9ba3972b319ec0eeaed
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What happened
A series of high-impact cyber incidents and trends: state-linked Russian actors exploited known flaws in older Internet routers to mass-harvest Microsoft Office authentication tokens from users on over 18,000 networks; German authorities identified Daniil Shchukin ("UNKN") as the alleged operator behind REvil and GandCrab; a financially motivated group deployed the "CanisterWorm" wiper targeting systems using Iran time zone/Farsi; U.S., Canadian and German authorities disrupted four massive IoT botnets (Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, Mossad) that had compromised >3 million devices and powered huge
Why it matters
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Evidence and limitations
- Source ID
- krebs_on_security
- Record identifier
- d1dea585171d1c826cef7a8d7ab17618405f544e4ab2a9ba3972b319ec0eeaed
- Enrichment time
- 2026-04-10T01:23:26Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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