Russian Spies Used Americans Routers to Intercept Data - FBI Just Cut Them Off

Officials tied the activity to GRU Unit 26165, also known as APT28, which exploited known vulnerabilities in widely used routers and altered their settings to redirect internet traffic through infrastructure it controlled. That access did not depend on hacking individual computers. By taking over the router, operators placed themselves in the path of the data and monitored traffic moving across the network to decide what to extract. For selected targets, the network returned fraudulent DNS records that mimicked legitimate login services, including Microsoft Outlook Web Access, to capture passwords, authentication tokens, and email data.

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