UK exposes Russian cyber unit hacking home routers to hijack internet traffic

Multiple concurrent cyber incidents and trends pose elevated risk: UK authorities disclosed a Russian cyber unit is compromising small office/home office (SOHO) routers and similar internet‑exposed network devices—often via weak/default settings or outdated firmware—to hijack and redirect internet traffic. Separately, a large DDoS disrupted services from Russian ISP Rostelecom, Northern Ireland’s centralized C2K school network suffered a disruptive intrusion, and Microsoft warned the Medusa ransomware group is leveraging zero‑days to move from initial access to exfiltration and encryption in ~