US FBI's Daring Router Raid Crushes Russia's DNS Spy Network
Imagine your trusty home router, that unassuming box humming in the corner, secretly funneling your data to Moscow. The US just shut that nightmare down—Operation Masquerade style.
Imagine your trusty home router, that unassuming box humming in the corner, secretly funneling your data to Moscow. The US just shut that nightmare down—Operation Masquerade style.
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.