Russia’s Forest Blizzard Is Abusing Home + Small Office Routers for Cred Theft

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast covers Forest Blizzard, a Russian state-linked actor that compromises unmanaged home and small office routers to hijack DNS traffic, enabling broad surveillance and targeted credential theft; the episode reviews evolving tactics (from brute force to token-based access and DNS hijacking), explains why unmanaged routers are a critical blind spot, and discusses downstream third-party risks.