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FBI offers urgent guidance on securing home routers after disrupting Russian intelligence hacking network

Foreign hackers are looking to exploit vulnerabilities in Americans' internet routers and the FBI is offering tips for securing your home or office routers after it announced actions it took to crack down on a Russian hacking unit.Last week, the FBI and Justice Department announced that they conducted a court-authorized operation to neutralize a U.S. portion of a network of small office/home office (SOHO) routers that were compromised by a unit within Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU) Military Unit 26165.The GRU used the routers to facilitate malicious Domain Na...