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The FBI may have reset your wireless router; if so, you should replace it

9to5Mac·Ben Lovejoy·6 months ago
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The FBI and NSA jointly announced that Russia has been systematically compromising the security of home and small office routers since at least 2024.

They obtained a court order to allow them to remotely reset thousands of affected devices in the US, but if yours is one of them, it needs to be urgently replaced …

CNET reports.

Federal agencies, including the FBI and NSA, disclosed on April 7 that a unit of Russia’s military intelligence directorate, the GRU group known as APT28 or Fancy Bear, has been systematically compromising home and small office routers since at least 2024, using the access to intercept credentials, authentication tokens and sensitive communications.…

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