The FBI have remotely reset thousands of home and small office routers after releasing a joint press release detailing how Russia has been compromising devices.
Some brands of routers are known for lasting upwards of a decade, and while that's great for the consumer, the developers will often stop releasing updates to keep the router secure. This leaves them open to compromise by attackers, specifically Russia’s Main Directorate of the General Staff (GRU), tracked as APT28 or Fancy Bear, which
