18,000 devices. 120 countries. 23 U.S. states. One authentication bypass bug from 2023 that nobody patched.
Russia’s military intelligence (the GRU) ran an operation codenamed “FrostArmada” — and the whole thing worked because people never update their router firmware. That little blinking box in your closet? It might have been quietly sending your Outlook login to Moscow for months. The FBI had to remotely break into compromised American routers just to clean them up. I mean. Think about that.
