The FBI took down a botnet of small office/home office (SOHO) routers used by Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU) to proxy malicious traffic and to target the United States and its allies in spearphishing and credential theft attacks.
I answered this in my top-level comment. (And agreed: the article originally posted is useless. OP has since changed the link to the one I found.)
Right on, thank you!