🇿🇦 South Africa 8h ago · Faizel Patel

Microsoft exposes Russian hacker group hijacking home routers for spying

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Microsoft exposes Russian hacker group hijacking home routers for spying
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Microsoft’s threat intelligence team has revealed how Forest Blizzard, a hacker group linked to the Russian military, has been turning ordinary home and small office routers into spying tools.



In a blog released this week, alongside an FBI operation, Microsoft explained that the group changes router settings to secretly collect internet traffic and hide its attacks behind normal‑looking systems.



Weak internet



Since August 2025, Forest Blizzard has been exploiting weak internet dev

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