Russian Hackers Are Inside American Home Routers. The FBI Has a 5-Step Fix
A coordinated cyberattack by Russia's GRU targeted home and small office routers across 23 states. Here's how to check yours and lock it down.
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Most home routers sit in a corner, ignored, and that's exactly what Russia's military intelligence unit was counting on. The GRU group known as APT28, responsible for some of the most significant state-sponsored hacks of the past decade, spent years exploiting that neglect, working its way into thousands of home and small office routers across 23 US states and using the access to intercept traffic, steal credentials and build a shadow network of compromised devices. A joint federal advisory issued April 7 outlined the scope of the attack and the court-authorized operation that disrupted it. It also came with a clear instruction: There are five steps every router owner should take immediately.
The attack targeted small-office/home-office routers, also known as SOHO routers, and...
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