10 years. Wrong timeline to focus on.
Turla, a Russian cyber espionage group, compromised routers worldwide, transforming them into anonymous launchpoints for critical infrastructure attacks. The "Centro 16" of Russia's FSB orchestrated this decade-long campaign, targeting weakly configured or outdated devices.
What everyone reads as a router problem is actually a patch governance failure. 42% of exploited vulnerabilities in 2025 were weaponized before public disclosure (CrowdStrike Global Threat Report 2026). This pattern exposes a systemic issue in vulnerability management.
The defensive math: -> Implement a 14-day patch cycle to reduce exploitation windows -> Conduct regular configuration audits to identify weakly configured devices -> Integrate threat intelligence on known nation-state campaigns into security operations
When did your team last assess router security in the context of nation-state campaigns?
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