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The US government warns that Russia state hackers are coming after your router

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Feed Name: Ars Technica Security (category)

Threat Score
85/100

Date Published: 2026-07-13

Date Updated: 2026-07-15

Author: Dan Goodin

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and allied governments warn that Russian FSB-affiliated actors (tracked as groups such as Berserk Bear and others) are actively mass-compromising poorly configured home and small-office routers worldwide by scanning for SNMP agents that accept default/common credentials; attackers enroll devices into botnets and use them as proxy networks to obscure nefarious activity against sensitive public- and private-sector organizations.

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