Your corner router isn't just slow—it's a gateway for Russian spies. Forest Blizzard's massive SOHO compromise reveals how nation-states weaponize everyday home tech for stealthy intel grabs.
Your coffee-maker router just got a lot less cozy. Russian spies used 18,000 of them to snag your Microsoft logins, and the feds only now slammed the door.
Routers. Those dusty boxes in your closet? Russia's GRU just got busted turning thousands into spy cams. FBI pulled the plug— but the real hack? We're all still wide open.
Over 18,000 routers — mostly dusty old Mikrotik and TP-Link models — got flipped by Russian military hackers last year. They didn't drop malware; just tweaked DNS to swipe Microsoft auth tokens mid-session.